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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: bugfix for softmac crash on multi cpu configurations
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:18:13 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110125111813.GA14763@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295952716-16161-1-git-send-email-rvossen@broadcom.com>

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:51:56AM +0100, Roland Vossen wrote:
> Solved a locking issue that resulted in driver crashes with the 43224 and 43225
> chips. The problem has been reported on several fora. Root cause was two fold:
> hardware was being manipulated by two unsynchronized threads, and a scan
> operation could interfere with an ongoing dynamic calibration process. Fix was
> to invoke a lock on wl_ops_config() operation and to set internal flags when a
> scan operation is started and stopped.
> 
> Please add this to the staging-linus branch.

Should this also go to the .37 stable kernel tree?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-25 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-25 10:51 [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: bugfix for softmac crash on multi cpu configurations Roland Vossen
2011-01-25 11:18 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-01-25 11:24   ` Roland Vossen
2011-01-25 11:41     ` Greg KH

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