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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: htl10@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>,
	John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Fix 'queuing ieee80211 work while going to suspend' warning
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:23:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1ED1E9.2090103@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <685962.23975.qm@web23105.mail.ird.yahoo.com>

On 12/08/2009 04:18 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> 
> Sorry I haven't been paying too much attention due to other commitments... that sounds like race condition somewhere. Besides adding flag variables, would mutex help?

It is a race in the sense that mac80211 may queue a LED change during
the shut down process. So far, it seems that the slight change that I
posted to Herton's patch is going to work. It keeps the brightness
setting routine from queuing any more on/off sequences after the LED
has been removed.

Larry

      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-08 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-08  2:08 [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Fix 'queuing ieee80211 work while going to suspend' warning Larry Finger
2009-12-08 11:02 ` Michael Buesch
2009-12-08 15:41   ` Larry Finger
2009-12-08 15:41   ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2009-12-08 20:16     ` Larry Finger
2009-12-08 20:57       ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2009-12-08 21:00         ` Larry Finger
2009-12-08 21:07           ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2009-12-08 22:18     ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-12-08 22:23       ` Larry Finger [this message]

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