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Subject: Re: [PATCH w-t] iwlwifi: rewrite iwl-scan.c to avoid race
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:00 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:

> Scan works have now custom workqueue to allow scan functions
> to run in parallel with other iwlwifi works, which could wait
> for scan abort finish.

Do we really need a complete workqueue? It seems like the relevant work
structs that really do need to be waited for from the workqueue can be
queued with schedule_work? Shouldn't that only be a few of them anyway?

johannes