From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
softmac-dev@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] softmac: make non-operational after being stopped
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:06:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146420369.17814.28.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060430173353.16363886AB1@zog.reactivated.net>
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On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 18:33 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> zd1211 with softmac and wpa_supplicant revealed an issue with softmac and the
> use of workqueues. Some of the work functions actually reschedule themselves,
> so this meant that there could still be pending work after
> flush_scheduled_work() had been called during ieee80211softmac_stop().
>
> This patch introduces a "running" flag which is used to ensure that
> rescheduling does not happen in this situation.
[...]
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Not sure what state 2.6.17 is in now, but I'm thinking it's almost a
miracle people aren't hitting this more with bcm43xx. And it kills the
kernel pretty effectively too ;)
johannes
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2006-04-30 17:33 [PATCH] softmac: make non-operational after being stopped Daniel Drake
2006-04-30 18:06 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2006-04-30 20:23 ` Johannes Berg
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