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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regd: sleeping in atomic
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:42:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9FD11E.5050108@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e891003160918x3b7e3c9asf4fc8a9db35ccd8a@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/16/2010 05:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> one iteration of call_crda() which happens during module
> initialization and from what I gather I don't think the kernel is
> happy when you mutex_lock on load routines, please correct my foggy
> memory if I am mistaken.

No, using mutex in init/exit module routines is fine. Where do you have 
the information from? There might be problems only with request_module, 
flush_scheduled_work or similar.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-16 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-16 13:26 regd: sleeping in atomic Jiri Slaby
2010-03-16 16:18 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-03-16 18:42   ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2010-03-16 20:36     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-03-16 19:49 ` [PATCH] wireless: convert reg_regdb_search_lock to mutex John W. Linville
2010-03-16 10:03   ` Senthil Balasubramanian
2010-03-17  0:24     ` John W. Linville
2010-03-16 12:24       ` Senthil Balasubramanian
2010-03-17  2:56         ` John W. Linville
2010-03-17  3:24           ` Johannes Berg
2010-03-17  1:26             ` Senthil Balasubramanian
2010-03-17 12:55             ` John W. Linville
2010-03-17 13:01               ` John W. Linville
2010-03-17 19:33   ` [PATCH v2] " John W. Linville
2010-03-18 20:47     ` [PATCH v3] " John W. Linville

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