From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: fix beacon resource related race condition
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:54:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101202185444.GA2358@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291115197-10883-1-git-send-email-rmanoharan@atheros.com>
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:36:37PM +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> While releasing beacon slot, it can be accessed by beacon tasklet.
> To avoid concurrency, beacon alert is disabled before
> freeing beacon resource and it will be enabled again in the
> persence of other beaconing mode interfaces.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Is this intended for 2.6.37? It looks like it could apply there.
Could you be more specific about the effect of the bug you are fixing?
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-02 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-30 11:06 [PATCH] ath9k: fix beacon resource related race condition Rajkumar Manoharan
2010-12-02 18:54 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-12-03 9:12 ` Rajkumar Manoharan
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