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From: Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben-/+tVBieCtBitmTQ+vhA3Yw@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Larry Finger
	<Larry.Finger-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>,
	linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org,
	linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	Stable <stable-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] b43: Fix oops if firmware is not available
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:40:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1389516039.5242.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389500647.3720.51.camel-nDn/Rdv9kqW9Jme8/bJn5UCKIB8iOfG2tUK59QYPAWc@public.gmane.org> (sfid-20140112_052455_040829_49454E3C)

On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 04:24 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> You could switch back to synchronous firmware loading soon, as it's not
> going to support a usermode helper any more.
> 
> But until then, the proper fix for this is going to be to cancel the
> waiter earlier in teardown.

I don't think we found a way when we looked at this, and instead made
the module unload wait for the request_firmware callback to come back
(see all users of the request_firmware_complete struct member in
iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c)

johannes

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-12  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-11 19:48 [PATCH 0/3] Fixes for b43 and b43legacy Larry Finger
     [not found] ` <1389469714-13040-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-11 19:48   ` [PATCH 2/3] b43: Fix oops if firmware is not available Larry Finger
2014-01-12  3:27     ` Ben Hutchings
2014-01-12  3:55       ` Larry Finger
2014-01-12  4:24         ` Ben Hutchings
     [not found]           ` <1389500647.3720.51.camel-nDn/Rdv9kqW9Jme8/bJn5UCKIB8iOfG2tUK59QYPAWc@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-12  8:40             ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2014-01-12 19:21           ` Larry Finger
2014-01-11 19:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] b43legacy: " Larry Finger

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