From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:41906 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756242Ab0JOTdf (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:33:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4CB8AC80.7090802@kernel.org> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:33:20 +0200 From: Tejun Heo MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John W. Linville" CC: Christian Lamparter , Johannes Berg , Linux Wireless List , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH v2.6.36-rc7] mac80211: cancel restart_work explicitly instead of depending on flush_scheduled_work() References: <4CB874C0.8090003@kernel.org> <1287159715.1870.11.camel@Nokia-N900-51-1> <4CB883C9.6050104@kernel.org> <201010151858.45000.chunkeey@googlemail.com> <20101015192645.GA2438@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20101015192645.GA2438@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, On 10/15/2010 09:26 PM, John W. Linville wrote: >> wireless-testing/wireless-next has already such a patch: >> "mac80211: cancel restart_work in ieee80211_unregister_hw" (2010-08-25) >> >> >> >> John, can you please push to 2.6.36-rc8? >> (I know, I am _late_, but I didn't know about any potential problem >> in the mainline?) > > I don't see how either patch would merit inclusion in 2.6.36 at this point. My patch definitely was aimed for 2.6.37-rc1 or later. I'm not sure whether the cancel_work_sync() is a bug fix or not but if it hasn't actually triggered yet, I guess leaving it as-is isn't too bad at this point. Thanks. -- tejun