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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ivo Van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	rt2400-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rt2x00: Fix lock dependency errror
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:20:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1214425240.21847.57.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a32f33a40806251318n4f0bac2cs7ada6e23afe0cb6e@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080625_221835_923416_D8569C55)

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On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 22:18 +0200, Ivo Van Doorn wrote:
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h
> >> index 611d983..73dacbb 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h
> >> @@ -821,6 +822,7 @@ struct rt2x00_dev {
> >>       /*
> >>        * Scheduled work.
> >>        */
> >> +     struct workqueue_struct *workqueue;
> >
> > Do you really need a whole workqueue (kernel thread) per device? I would
> > think that using schedule_work / cancel_work_sync for this task and keep
> > using the mac80211 wq would be sufficient?
> 
> True, but this is a quick patch to resolve the bug for sure.

Fair enough, this is a fix for 2.6.26 after all.

johannes

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-25 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-25 19:27 [PATCH] rt2x00: Fix lock dependency errror Ivo van Doorn
2008-06-25 19:33 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-25 20:18   ` Ivo Van Doorn
2008-06-25 20:20     ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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