Re: Regression in 2.6.27-rcX caused by commit bc19d6e0b74ef03a3baf035412c95192b54dfc6f

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Wednesday 17 September 2008 00:37:29 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > But I don't know how to tell the rfkill subsystem about the states and
> 
> rfkill_force_state().  Must NOT be called from within atomic contextes,
> something I haven't got around to find a proper way of fixing, and nobody
> else seems to be on a rfkill coding frenzy right now.

That's a showstopper for us, as we have to change the state from
within an interrupt tasklet.

> I won't go on the rfkill-allocate/-free stuff, messing with that API means
> you need to fix a lot of other people's drivers.  But you have the
> rfkill-hw-state-changed now, it is called rfkill_force_state().  The only
> crap is that it cannot be called from atomic contexts.

Yeah well. I didn't know. I lost interest in rfkill pretty much when it
stopped blowing up (until it started again when somebody merged a patch
recently).

-- 
Greetings Michael.