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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Fix locking problem when stopping rfkill polling
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:43:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACD1998.5020902@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254955015.3713.9.camel@johannes.local>

Johannes Berg wrote:
> This is because when stopping polling we need to cancel the work and
> sync on it, but when starting it's completely async so starting can be
> in any context.

Does that mean that start could be moved outside the mutex_lock so
that the start and stop would look symmetrical in b43?

Larry

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-07 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-07 15:06 [PATCH] b43: Fix locking problem when stopping rfkill polling Larry Finger
2009-10-07 19:01 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-07 19:28   ` Larry Finger
2009-10-07 19:46     ` Michael Buesch
2009-10-07 22:36     ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-07 22:43       ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-10-07 23:08         ` Michael Buesch
2009-10-08 20:23   ` Larry Finger
2009-10-08 22:31     ` John W. Linville

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