Re: Badness in remove_proc_entry in wlan driver unregistration.

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

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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