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iwm(4): Don't panic if firmware load fails
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Authored by gavin on Nov 11 2016, 7:16 PM.
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If the firmware load fails during init via iwm_preinit(), we bail out before calling ieee80211_ifattach() so the taskqueue hasn't been initialized. Don't try to drain it, we'll panic. Looks like this issue was introduced in r303326.

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gavin retitled this revision from to iwm(4): Don't panic if firmware load fails.
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sys/dev/iwm/if_iwm.c
6195 ↗(On Diff #22154)

(unrelated; may be done later) 'do_net80211' may be replaced with 'sc->sc_ic.ic_vap_create == iwm_vap_create'

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Nov 11 2016, 7:38 PM
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