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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: cfg80211 rfkill interface
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:57:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295017068.3853.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2EFC2EC4C7011444989031FE55348CDA9549080E26@SJEXCHCCR02.corp.ad.broadcom.com>

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 06:54 -0800, Arend Van Spriel wrote:

> Thanks for you thoughts on this. Especially the last remark was reason
> for me to verify several usage scenarios. I ran into a issue with
> unloading the driver module while it was in blocked rfkill state and
> polling was active. Turns out the call to ieee80211_unregister_hw
> takes a loooong time before it returns and dmesg shows message from
> unregister_netdevice which seems related about refcount not being
> zero. This is only observed in this scenario. Any suggestion on how to
> handle this?

No, I can see no reason for this to happen?? rfkill doesn't take a
netdev refcount.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-14 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-10 19:33 cfg80211 rfkill interface Arend Van Spriel
2011-01-10 19:45 ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-14 14:54   ` Arend Van Spriel
2011-01-14 14:57     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-01-14 15:05       ` Arend Van Spriel

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