From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755423AbZBRCX7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:23:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751803AbZBRCXv (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:23:51 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:54348 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751777AbZBRCXv (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:23:51 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:21:17 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Richard Kennedy , Karl Relton Cc: lkml , wlan-devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: block ioctls until card fully initialised Message-ID: <20090218022117.GB32325@kroah.com> References: <1234213202.6875.70.camel@dellpc> <20090209211700.GA10742@kroah.com> <1234478293.17792.1.camel@dellpc> <1234873158.2891.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1234478293.17792.1.camel@dellpc> <1234873158.2891.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:19:18PM +0000, Richard Kennedy wrote: > Add a mutex to block ioctls before the card is fully initialised and > only allow one ioctl at a time. > This stops udev trying to load the firmware before to card is fully up. > > patch ported from wlan-ng-devel > > Karl Relton spotted that this was > missing from the staging version, > http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2009-February/003890.html Karl sent me a patch a few days before you that also added this functionality. Unfortunatly, both of your patches don't apply to the latest version of the wlan-ng driver as it has had a lot of work done on it recently. Could one of you grab the linux-next tree and make a patch up against the version in it so that I can apply this? thanks, greg k-h