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From: nick <xerofoify@gmail.com>
To: Larry Finger
	<Larry.Finger-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	b43-dev-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org,
	stefano.brivio-hl5o88x/ua9eoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: [PATCH] drivers:net:wireless: Add proper locking for the function,  b43_op_beacon_set_tim in main.c
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:21:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54AAD62C.3000105@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54AACE00.8060407@lwfinger.net>


Larry,
Your right I build tested it. Unfortunately I don't have
the hardware.
Regards Nick
On 2015-01-05 12:46 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 01/05/2015 11:16 AM, nick wrote:
>> Kalle,
>> That's fine. On the other hand I am interested in the
>> reasons why this patch was dropped so I can send in a
>> version 2 of this patch.
>> Regards Nick
> 
> Apparently you missed Michael B?sch's comment:
> 
> "Thanks for the patch.
> 
> However, this does not work. We are in atomic context here.
> Please see the b43-dev mailing list archives for a recent thread about that.
> I'm also pretty sure that this is safe without lock, due to the higher level locks in mac80211."
> 
> Did you actually test the patch? If Michael is right, and I trust him on this matter, your patch should lock the system.
> 
> Larry
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2015-01-05 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-02  7:34 [PATCH] drivers:net:wireless: Add proper locking for the function, b43_op_beacon_set_tim in main.c Nicholas Krause
2015-01-02  9:27 ` Michael Büsch
2015-01-02 11:19   ` Rafał Miłecki
2015-01-02 11:42     ` Michael Büsch
2015-01-02 17:13   ` nick
2015-01-02 16:40 ` Larry Finger
2015-01-05  9:29 ` Kalle Valo
2015-01-05 17:16   ` nick
2015-01-05 17:46     ` Larry Finger
2015-01-05 18:21       ` nick [this message]

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