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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: seventh guardian <seventhguardian@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: d80211 deadlock with wpa_supplicant and rmmod
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:45:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184363116.3928.4.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1caff7430707130505r579ef08cmacc6c77f7535a66c@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 13:05 +0100, seventh guardian wrote:

> Hello, sorry for the delay but I only managed to try it out today..
> I've applied the patch and tortured the system as far as I could, and
> no hang at all :)
> 
> I've read the thread and it apparently replaces one bad problem for a
> lesser one, so I understand if it's not applied.. But at least there
> is a place in the code to point as the culprit :)

It definitely should be applied anyway :) I guess John just hasn't
caught up with all threads yet.

John: This is about the patch in the "mac80211/bcm43xx deadlock" thread
from Michael, it kills some rtnl_lock()/unlock() that causes this
deadlock.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-13 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1caff7430707111617o70a534a5x2cf6b611a91f301a@mail.gmail.com>
2007-07-11 23:41 ` d80211 deadlock with wpa_supplicant and rmmod John W. Linville
2007-07-12  2:20   ` seventh guardian
2007-07-12 10:02   ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-13 12:05     ` seventh guardian
2007-07-13 21:45       ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2007-07-14 13:24         ` Jiri Benc

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