[ath9k-devel] [PATCH 16/18] ath9k: make ath_reset non-static

[Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>]

On Wednesday 23 November 2011 09:02 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:

> Doing reset from tasklet context created several nasty stability issues
> that were hard to track down, and the potential gain from doing reset
> 'immediately' that way is purely theoretical. Resets should be rare in
> normal operation, as they're also expensive.
> The main problem when running reset from a tasklet is that there is no
> way of gracefully shutting down ongoing workqueue activity, so the
> result of the reset could be that the work items mess up the state right
> after the reset is done.

thanks, true in this case ath_reset is called from tasklet context. i 
will send a v2 for using queue_work.

>
> - Felix


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thanks,
shafi