From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Fix locking problem when stopping rfkill polling
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:23:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACE4A48.9070901@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091007190106.GB22394@tuxdriver.com>
On 10/07/2009 02:01 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> OK, but why do we start polling under the lock but stop polling without
> the lock? Should we start polling without holding the lock too?
I see that this patch was committed. I hope that you will be sending
it upstream for 2.6.32. The correct version has been sent to stable
for inclusion in 2.6.31, but as usual, a mainline commit ID will be
needed.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-08 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-07 15:06 [PATCH] b43: Fix locking problem when stopping rfkill polling Larry Finger
2009-10-07 19:01 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-07 19:28 ` Larry Finger
2009-10-07 19:46 ` Michael Buesch
2009-10-07 22:36 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-07 22:43 ` Larry Finger
2009-10-07 23:08 ` Michael Buesch
2009-10-08 20:23 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-10-08 22:31 ` John W. Linville
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