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RE: [PATCH 4/8] mac80211: RCU-ify STA info structure access

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On Wednesday, March 05, 2008 1:23 AM, Johannes Berg  wrote:

>> This patch is causing some problems in the iwlwifi driver. Often when
>> one of these RCU locks are held the driver tries to send a command to
>> the device and waits for the response, or it does some other activity
>> requiring sleeping. This causes numerous BUG messages as seen below:
>> 
>> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
>> /home/rchatre/wifi/repos.git/iwlwifi-2.6/kernel/mutex.c:209
> 
> 
>>  [<dca8e637>] iwl3945_mac_conf_tx+0x1b0/0x234 [iwl3945]
>>  [<dc9d186a>] ieee80211_sta_wmm_params+0x165/0x195 [mac80211]
> 
> Ouch, sorry. Try this patch please.

This patch made those BUG messages disappear. Thank you very much.

Tested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>

Reinette
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