From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Ram <vshrirama@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Badness in remove_proc_entry in wlan driver unregistration.
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:42:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151232147.4940.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bf247760606250217i5c0079f2o997be3518b22d7a6@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 14:47 +0530, Ram wrote:
> Hi,
> when i try to unload a wlan driver i get the message:
>
> Badness in remove_proc_entry at fs/proc/generic.c:705
>
>
> This comes from the statment in the driver:
> wlan_proc_remove("wlan");
>
>
> How does one solve the problem.
>
>
> This wlan driver was in 2.4. i ported it to 2.6. Is there any
> difference as far as wlan/networking unregistering is concerned for a
> wlan driver.
the driver is probably trying to remove a non-empty directory from proc,
which causes data corruption (both in 2.4 and 2.6)... 2.6 warns about it
though, 2.4 probably doesn't.
can you give a pointer to the driver source so that we can help fix it?
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2006-06-25 9:17 Ram
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