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Larry Finger committed 574e02abaf8
rtlwifi: fix for race condition when firmware is cached In commit b0302ab, the rtlwifi family of drivers was converted to use asynchronous firmware loading. Unfortumately, the implementation was racy, and the ieee80211 routines could be started before rtl_init_core() was called to setup the data. This patch fixes the bug noted in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43187. Reported-by: Joshua Roys <Joshua.Roys@gtri.gatech.edu> Tested-by: Neptune Ning <frostyplanet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.3] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>