Re: [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: bugfix for softmac crash on multi cpu configurations

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:51:56AM +0100, Roland Vossen wrote:
> Solved a locking issue that resulted in driver crashes with the 43224 and 43225
> chips. The problem has been reported on several fora. Root cause was two fold:
> hardware was being manipulated by two unsynchronized threads, and a scan
> operation could interfere with an ongoing dynamic calibration process. Fix was
> to invoke a lock on wl_ops_config() operation and to set internal flags when a
> scan operation is started and stopped.
> 
> Please add this to the staging-linus branch.

Should this also go to the .37 stable kernel tree?

thanks,

greg k-h
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Driver Backports]     [DMA Engine]     [Linux GPIO]     [Linux SPI]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Coverity]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Yosemite Backpacking]
  Powered by Linux