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Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: work around a locking issue in ->set_tim()
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 18:37 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> According to Michael, the real
> fix would be to allow set_tim() to sleep, since b43 is not the only
> driver that needs to sleep in all callbacks.

According to me, that's pretty much impossible... But patches welcome,
of course. :)

johannes

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