From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: b43: firmware loading problem and sleeping BUG
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:45:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911062145.14448.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911062008.06159.mb@bu3sch.de>
On Friday 06 November 2009 20:08:04 Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Friday 06 November 2009 19:27:17 Martin Fuzzey wrote:
> > > I think this is easy to fix, because we can replace the spinlock by a mutex, as
> > > the b43 driver (which is the only user of the code) always allows sleeping now.
> > > I'll send a patch for testing soon.
> > >
> > Great - happy to test it.
>
> There you go.
This doesn't actually work, because the lowlevel interrupt handler is atomic on PCMCIA.
So scratch that patch, it will just oops your machine.
--
Greetings, Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-06 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-06 16:19 b43: firmware loading problem and sleeping BUG Martin Fuzzey
2009-11-06 17:22 ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-06 18:27 ` Martin Fuzzey
2009-11-06 18:31 ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-09 15:46 ` Martin Fuzzey
2009-11-06 19:08 ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-06 20:45 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
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