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From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Change the hardware radio enable logic and  cleanup code
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:54:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F3E930.1050007@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709211522.01273.mb@bu3sch.de>

Michael Buesch wrote:
> 
> Just that you are aware of it:
> This is a racy access to the radio_hw_enable variable, as we don't take
> the mutex here (we can't and we don't want). But it's OK, since nobody
> cares if the LED is racing for a second and displays the wrong state
> for a second.
> Same goes for the phy->radio_on access.
> 
> The patch is ACKed by me.
> 

Thanks for the heads-up on the raciness of the access. I'm still learning what can and cannot be done.

Larry


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-21 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-21  1:10 [PATCH] b43legacy: Change the hardware radio enable logic and cleanup code Larry Finger
2007-09-21 13:22 ` Michael Buesch
2007-09-21 15:54   ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-09-22  7:05   ` Kalle Valo

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