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Re: [PATCH 1/2] cw1200: Don't perform SPI transfers in interrupt context

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 08:29:46PM -0400, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> When we get an interrupt from the hardware, the first thing the driver does
> is tell the device to mask off the interrupt line.  Unfortunately this
> involves a SPI transaction in interrupt context.  Some (most?) SPI
> controllers perform the transfer asynchronously and try to sleep.
> This is bad, and triggers a BUG().

Did this patch series get dropped?  I saw that the followup series 
of minor cleanups were merged into wireless-next, but not these.

Since they didn't make it into 3.11, I intend to submit them to -stable, 
but I need to make sure they at least make it into -next.

Thanks,

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
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