From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: netrolller.3d@gmail.com,
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>,
Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>,
John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Fix for kernel oops when unloading with LEDs enabled
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:16:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247501812.4166.24.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a5b563e.AuhPXmHA0dUFYtzx%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 10:43 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> When rtl8187 is unloaded and CONFIG_RTL8187_LEDS is set, the kernel
> may oops when the module is unloaded as the workqueue for led_on was
> not being cancelled. To prevent interference between cfg80211 and rtl8187,
> a separate workqueue has also been established.
It doesn't seem like a separate workqueue should be necessary -- why is
it? Might make more sense to fix cfg80211 or mac80211 instead.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-13 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-13 15:43 [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Fix for kernel oops when unloading with LEDs enabled Larry Finger
2009-07-13 16:16 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-07-13 19:47 ` Larry Finger
2009-07-13 19:49 ` Johannes Berg
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