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Re: [PATCH] wlcore: move handling from hardirq to the irq thread function

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On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 12:53 +0200, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> Spin locks and completions are expensive in hard IRQ context and cause
> problems with RT kernels.  In RT kernels, both spin locks and
> completions can schedule(), so we can't use them in hard irq context.
> 
> Move handling code into the irq thread function to avoid that.
> 
> Reported-by: Gregoire Gentil <gregoire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@xxxxxx>
> ---

Applied.

-- 
Luca.

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