From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2.6.36-rc7] mac80211: cancel restart_work explicitly instead of depending on flush_scheduled_work()
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:33:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CB8AC80.7090802@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101015192645.GA2438@tuxdriver.com>
Hello,
On 10/15/2010 09:26 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
>> wireless-testing/wireless-next has already such a patch:
>> "mac80211: cancel restart_work in ieee80211_unregister_hw" (2010-08-25)
>>
>> <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6.git;a=commit;h=258086a48b766d12a500f98834654ffa927ca475>
>>
>> John, can you please push to 2.6.36-rc8?
>> (I know, I am _late_, but I didn't know about any potential problem
>> in the mainline?)
>
> I don't see how either patch would merit inclusion in 2.6.36 at this point.
My patch definitely was aimed for 2.6.37-rc1 or later. I'm not sure
whether the cancel_work_sync() is a bug fix or not but if it hasn't
actually triggered yet, I guess leaving it as-is isn't too bad at this
point.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-15 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-15 15:35 [PATCH v2.6.36-rc7] mac80211: cancel restart_work explicitly instead of depending on flush_scheduled_work() Tejun Heo
2010-10-15 16:21 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-15 16:39 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-15 16:58 ` Christian Lamparter
2010-10-15 19:26 ` John W. Linville
2010-10-15 19:33 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-10-15 20:07 ` Christian Lamparter
2010-10-15 20:06 ` Tejun Heo
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