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rt2x00: Allow dynamic addition of PCI/USB IDs.
authorGertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:32:13 +0000 (15:32 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:39:45 +0000 (15:39 -0400)
commite01ae27f8ce6bd3ee26ef33c704f62449ce8233b
tree28c022b0e755e244e4834f741d2bfce600606624
parentce2919c9fffe2aa52f9c3e327176d03764dbf9b5
rt2x00: Allow dynamic addition of PCI/USB IDs.

Both USB and PCI drivers allow a system administrator to dynamically add
USB/PCI IDs to the device table that a driver supports via the
/sys/bus/{usb,pci,pci_express}/drivers/<driver-name>/new_id files.

However, for the rt2x00 drivers using this method currently crashes the
system with a NULL pointer failure.

This is due to the set-up of rt2x00 where the probe functions require a
rt2x00_ops structure in the driver_info field of the probed device. As
this field is empty for the dynamically added devices this fails for
these devices.

Fix this by introducing driver-specific probe wrappers that do nothing
but calling the bus-specific probe functions with the rt2x00_ops structure
as an argument, rather than depending on the driver_info field.

Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2400pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.h
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.h
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c