From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: d80211: ieee80211_hw handlers in atomic context Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:51:40 +0200 Message-ID: <4523E69C.1090408@web.de> References: <4523DA7D.2080604@web.de> <200610041807.05266.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <4523E1D5.1060505@web.de> <200610041834.57918.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <20061004183804.748706d6@griffin.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ivo van Doorn , netdev Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:6860 "EHLO fmmailgate01.web.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161602AbWJDQvv (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:51:51 -0400 To: Jiri Benc In-Reply-To: <20061004183804.748706d6@griffin.suse.cz> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jiri Benc wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 18:34:57 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: >> You could replace the timer with a workqueue, the original patch >> also did that, so I think it would be good enough this time as well. :) > > Yes, the timing isn't required to be precise here. Ok, I'm not promising success and I'm going to duck immediately if someone else feels like working on it, but I could try to patch in this direction. Now there just remains my precautious question if there are other services in the ieee_80211_hw interface that may conflict with sleeping USB drivers. What about specifying the possible contexts in include/net/d80211.h? Jan