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

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On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 07:58:57AM -0400, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> 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.

I'll be sending them for 3.12 soon...

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