From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, jbenc@suse.cz, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] d80211: make sleeping in hw->config possible #2
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:31:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060711023100.6d117264.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607111111.28040.mb@bu3sch.de>
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:11:27 +0200
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
> But I think the following is also broken in the old code:
> A wq is not pending anymore, but just executing (before it reschedules itself).
> I think that would also loop forever. I don't think that's what we want.
> Because we can't really keep track of _this_.
The present implementation assumes that the handler will re-arm itself.
I agree that extending that makes sense. But beware that it's easy to
leave subtle holes in this logic. Needs careful thought to get right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-10 22:54 [PATCH] d80211: make sleeping in hw->config possible #2 Michael Buesch
2006-07-11 4:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-11 9:11 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-11 9:31 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-07-11 10:12 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-12 16:53 ` Jiri Benc
2006-07-12 20:34 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-18 16:57 ` [RFC, RFT] " Jiri Benc
[not found] ` <20060718185711.21aaf55b-IhiK2ZEFs2oCVLCxKZUutA@public.gmane.org>
2006-07-18 17:36 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-18 17:58 ` Michael Buesch
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