Re: [PATCH] mac80211: make workqueue freezable

[Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 26 June 2008, Johannes Berg wrote:
> This patch makes the mac80211 workqueue freezable making it
> interact a bit better with system suspend and not try to ping
> the AP while the hardware is down.
>=20
> This doesn't really help with implementing proper suspend in
> any way but makes some bad things trigger less.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> ---
> I'm not sure whether we should put this into 2.6.26 or not, while it
> might help a bit it doesn't really do much over what the tx bugs find=
er
> already does except avoid sending out the packets that froze b43 in t=
he
> first place...
>=20
> Ivo, you might consider using =EF=BB=BFcreate_freezeable_workqueue fo=
r your
> rt2x00 patch though.

Will do. Thanks for the tip.

Ivo

>  net/mac80211/main.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>=20
> --- everything.orig/net/mac80211/main.c	2008-06-26 18:21:14.000000000=
 +0200
> +++ everything/net/mac80211/main.c	2008-06-26 18:21:16.000000000 +020=
0
> @@ -1774,7 +1774,7 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee802
>  	list_add_tail(&sdata->list, &local->interfaces);
> =20
>  	name =3D wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy)->driver->name;
> -	local->hw.workqueue =3D create_singlethread_workqueue(name);
> +	local->hw.workqueue =3D create_freezeable_workqueue(name);
>  	if (!local->hw.workqueue) {
>  		result =3D -ENOMEM;
>  		goto fail_workqueue;
>=20
>=20
>=20


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