From: "Michael Büsch" <m@bues.ch>
To: nick <xerofoify@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
"Stefano Brivio" <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>,
"Network Development" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers:net:wireless: Add mutex locking for function, b43_op_beacon_set_time in main.c
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:56:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141129095632.69361457@wiggum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54793E4E.7050602@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 22:32:30 -0500
nick <xerofoify@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't have hardware for this driver on me, so I didn't test it. However this seems to
> be correct from my reading of the code around this function and other locking related
> to this driver.
From the current docs:
> * @set_tim: Set TIM bit. mac80211 calls this function when a TIM bit
> * must be set or cleared for a given STA. Must be atomic.
So it is not allowed to lock a mutex here.
--
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-29 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-28 22:16 [PATCH] drivers:net:wireless: Add mutex locking for function, b43_op_beacon_set_time in main.c Nicholas Krause
2014-11-28 22:40 ` Rafał Miłecki
2014-11-28 23:21 ` Michael Büsch
2014-11-29 3:32 ` nick
2014-11-29 8:54 ` Rafał Miłecki
2014-11-29 8:56 ` Michael Büsch [this message]
2014-11-29 9:04 ` Rafał Miłecki
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2014-11-29 18:09 ` nick
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2014-11-29 18:54 ` Larry Finger
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