On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 00:10 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> > This is just for testing, if that works, we may need to fix the
> > kernel to create the bus-device driver link at the proper time
> > to be catched by DRIVERS==.
> 
> Just wondering whether there is anything new about this bug report.
> Marco said it could be ipw2200 having the "race between driver setup and
> populating the MAC address file in sysfs as some drivers do". Kay talks
> about fixing the kernel. Should I talk to the ipw2200 maintainer? Or is
> this a known problem that netdev people are dealing with for all drivers?

It likely affects all devices, not only netdev's or certain drivers.
This should fix it:
  
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/patches.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=driver/driver-link-sysfs-timing.patch

Kay



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