From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: victorg@ti.com
Cc: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/5] nl80211/cfg80211: adding intermediate scan result event.
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:54:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316678068.3899.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E7ADFFC.8080903@ti.com>
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 10:13 +0300, Victor Goldenshtein wrote:
> On 22/09/2011 09:49, Luciano Coelho wrote:
>
> > I guess what Johannes meant is that you can send the genl message in
> > atomic context, so you don't need to save stuff and use the event work.
> > You can just send it immediately when cfg80211_inform_bss() and
> > cfg80211_inform_bss_frame() are called.
> >
> > I'm not really sure you can send genl messages while atomic, I think I
> > had problems with that earlier, but you can try. ;)
> >
>
> ;)
>
> Well I already did, and it's not working, when you"ll try to send genl
> messages while atomic, you will get kernel warning regarding "sleeping
> function called from invalid context".
Where? We do that a lot, e.g. nl80211_send_mlme_event().
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-22 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-05 12:02 [RFC 0/5] Scan optimization Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-05 12:02 ` [RFC v2 1/5] nl80211/cfg80211: adding 'scan_cancel' command Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-05 12:05 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <4E6736CE.20004@ti.com>
2011-09-07 9:26 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-05 12:02 ` [RFC v2 2/5] mac80211: " Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-05 12:06 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-05 12:02 ` [RFC 3/5] nl80211/cfg80211: adding intermediate scan result event Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-05 12:08 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-05 12:08 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <4E6736D9.3070804@ti.com>
2011-09-07 9:26 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-08 6:31 ` Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-08 6:49 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-08 8:56 ` Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-08 9:27 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-08 14:39 ` Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-08 14:42 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-21 15:31 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-09-21 15:45 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-09-21 16:28 ` Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-21 16:38 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-22 6:41 ` Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-22 6:49 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-09-22 7:13 ` Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-22 7:15 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-09-22 7:54 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-09-21 8:19 ` Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-21 8:35 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-21 9:03 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-09-21 10:16 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-05 12:02 ` [RFC 4/5] mac80211: adding intermediate scan result event call Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-05 12:02 ` [RFC 5/5] nl80211/cfg80211: adding intermediate scan result filter Victor Goldenshtein
2011-09-05 12:11 ` Johannes Berg
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