From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] b43legacy: Don't cancel the restart workqueue in wireless_core_exit
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:03:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070917150358.GC9282@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46e577e8.J3sSMKsbv5F0EAQY%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Is this the correct patch? The first hunk conflicts with an earlier
patch ("b43legacy: Fix cancellation of work queues").
John
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:59:20AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
>
> The wq must be canceled later on rmmod. It's nonfatal, if
> the wq runs on a device that's not started or down. It will
> handle these cases.
> But syncing in wireless_core_exit() will cause a deadlock with
> the restart_work. (restart work cancels itself)
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
> ---
>
> John,
>
> Sorry, but I sent the bare patch in the first version.
>
> Larry
>
> drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
> +++ wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
> @@ -3021,6 +3021,7 @@ static void b43legacy_wireless_core_exit
> B43legacy_WARN_ON(b43legacy_status(dev) > B43legacy_STAT_INITIALIZED);
> if (b43legacy_status(dev) != B43legacy_STAT_INITIALIZED)
> return;
> + b43legacy_set_status(dev, B43legacy_STAT_UNINIT);
>
> b43legacy_rng_exit(dev->wl);
> b43legacy_pio_free(dev);
> @@ -3520,6 +3521,7 @@ static void b43legacy_one_core_detach(st
>
> wldev = ssb_get_drvdata(dev);
> wl = wldev->wl;
> + cancel_work_sync(&wldev->restart_work);
> b43legacy_debugfs_remove_device(wldev);
> b43legacy_wireless_core_detach(wldev);
> list_del(&wldev->list);
> -
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-10 16:59 [PATCH V2] b43legacy: Don't cancel the restart workqueue in wireless_core_exit Larry Finger
2007-09-17 15:03 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-09-17 17:05 ` Larry Finger
2007-09-17 17:37 ` John W. Linville
2007-09-17 18:58 ` Larry Finger
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