linux-wireless.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] brcmfmac: add delay before unregistering the network device
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:59:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1393358376.4170.22.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393356639-19169-2-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com> (sfid-20140225_203048_842452_A39499B6)

On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 20:30 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> Upon deleting the interface a cfg80211_disconnected() is called under
> rtnl_lock. Right after the unlocking the rtnl_lock we unregister the
> network device. This patch adds delay before unregister so cfg80211
> can handle disconnect and notify wpa_supplicant.

> +				/* make sure cfg80211 can send disconnect event
> +				 * before unregistering the netdevice below.
> +				 */
> +				msleep(100);

This has got to be one of the worst hacks I've seen in wireless so
far ... :)

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-25 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-25 19:30 [PATCH 00/14] brcmfmac: driver cleanup and rework Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 01/14] brcmfmac: add delay before unregistering the network device Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:59   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2014-02-26  9:07     ` Arend van Spriel
2014-02-26  9:17       ` Johannes Berg
2014-02-26  9:28         ` Arend van Spriel
2014-02-26  9:37           ` Johannes Berg
2014-02-26 10:43             ` Arend van Spriel
2014-02-26 11:10               ` Johannes Berg
2014-02-26 11:34                 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-02-26 11:48                   ` Johannes Berg
2014-02-26 12:18                     ` Arend van Spriel
2014-02-26 12:22                       ` Johannes Berg
2014-02-26 12:35                         ` Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 02/14] brcmfmac: Make firmeware roaming a module param Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 03/14] brcmfmac: fix use of skb control buffer in SDIO driver part Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 04/14] brcmfmac: remove unused variable data_len from brcmf_sdio_bus_txdata() Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 05/14] brcmfmac: Correct header debug dump for sdio tx hdrs Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 06/14] brcmfmac: de-init driver layers in correct order Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 07/14] brcmfmac: Minimize SDIO dpc scheduling Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 08/14] brcmfmac: Remove immediate sleep support from SDIO Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 09/14] brcmfmac: Small cleanup of redundant code Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 10/14] brcmfmac: Use atomic functions for intstatus update Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 23:38   ` Florian Fainelli
2014-02-26 12:20     ` Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 11/14] brcmfmac: Put frame sdio tx error handling in sub function Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 12/14] brcmfmac: Correct mcs index report Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 13/14] brcmfmac: use pre-allocated scatter-gather table for txglomming Arend van Spriel
2014-02-25 19:30 ` [PATCH 14/14] brcmfmac: reset suspend flag upon sdio suspend failure Arend van Spriel

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1393358376.4170.22.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net \
    --to=johannes@sipsolutions.net \
    --cc=arend@broadcom.com \
    --cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linville@tuxdriver.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).