From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:45109 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757701Ab0LBTAJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:00:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:54:44 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Rajkumar Manoharan Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: fix beacon resource related race condition Message-ID: <20101202185444.GA2358@tuxdriver.com> References: <1291115197-10883-1-git-send-email-rmanoharan@atheros.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1291115197-10883-1-git-send-email-rmanoharan@atheros.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:36:37PM +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote: > While releasing beacon slot, it can be accessed by beacon tasklet. > To avoid concurrency, beacon alert is disabled before > freeing beacon resource and it will be enabled again in the > persence of other beaconing mode interfaces. > > Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan Is this intended for 2.6.37? It looks like it could apply there. Could you be more specific about the effect of the bug you are fixing? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.