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From: Kalle Valo <Kalle.Valo@iki.fi>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Change the hardware radio enable logic and cleanup code
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:05:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4wbnpse.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709211522.01273.mb@bu3sch.de> (Michael Buesch's message of "Fri\, 21 Sep 2007 15\:22\:00 +0200")

Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:

>> Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/leds.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/leds.c
>> +++ wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/leds.c
>> @@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ void b43legacy_leds_update(struct b43leg
>>  	unsigned long interval = 0;
>>  	u16 ledctl;
>>  	unsigned long flags;
>> +	bool radio_enabled = (phy->radio_on && dev->radio_hw_enable);
>
> Just that you are aware of it:
> This is a racy access to the radio_hw_enable variable, as we don't take
> the mutex here (we can't and we don't want). But it's OK, since nobody
> cares if the LED is racing for a second and displays the wrong state
> for a second.
> Same goes for the phy->radio_on access.

As a side note, it would be nice to have this as a comment in the
code. Makes it easier for other people reading the code and wondering
if this a bug or not.

-- 
Kalle Valo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-22  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-21  1:10 [PATCH] b43legacy: Change the hardware radio enable logic and cleanup code Larry Finger
2007-09-21 13:22 ` Michael Buesch
2007-09-21 15:54   ` Larry Finger
2007-09-22  7:05   ` Kalle Valo [this message]

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