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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Update stop_queues kdoc

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On Friday 01 June 2007 19:32:04 James Ketrenos wrote:
> iwlwifi currently calls ieee80211_stop_queue from the Tx handler and calls ieee80211_stop_queues in the event the adapter is reset (due to HW error, RF kill transition, hw tear down, etc.) as it asynchronously brings re-initializes the hardware.

I think we do that in bcm43xx, too, and I think it is
indeed racy, too. So it may trigger the freeze, too.
A workaround might be to aquire the netdev_tx_lock around
the stop_queues call. But I'm not sure.


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Greetings Michael.
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