iwlwifi: unregister to upper stack before releasing resources

This patch fixes an early release of driver's resources before upper stack
was notified that low-level driver shuts down.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
index ae4e53f..e98695f 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
@@ -8207,6 +8207,11 @@ static void __devexit iwl4965_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 
        IWL_DEBUG_INFO("*** UNLOAD DRIVER ***\n");
 
+       if (priv->mac80211_registered) {
+               ieee80211_unregister_hw(priv->hw);
+               priv->mac80211_registered = 0;
+       }
+
        set_bit(STATUS_EXIT_PENDING, &priv->status);
 
        iwl4965_down(priv);
@@ -8241,9 +8246,6 @@ static void __devexit iwl4965_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
        iwl4965_unset_hw_setting(priv);
        iwlcore_clear_stations_table(priv);
 
-       if (priv->mac80211_registered) {
-               ieee80211_unregister_hw(priv->hw);
-       }
 
        /*netif_stop_queue(dev); */
        flush_workqueue(priv->workqueue);