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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:07:18 +0200
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH w-t] iwlwifi: rewrite iwl-scan.c to avoid race conditions
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 11:36:17AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:00 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> 
> > +	priv->status &= IWL_PRESERVE_STATUS_MASK;
> 
> Is that completely save here? No other functions can interfere?

I don't know, I think is not safe, but seems that is not worse 
compeered to what we have now.

> I just ported your patch to the current tree:
> http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/NNN-iwl-scan.patch
> 
> but I'm going to split it up into multiple now.

Ok, if you want to. I could to this as well, actually I should
doing that way from the beginning.

Stanislaw