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Re: [PATCH v2] mwifiex: fix race condition when downloading firmware

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Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The action 'check for winner' and 'download firmware' should be an
> atomic action. This is true for btmrvl driver but not mwmfiex, which
> cause firmware download to fail when the following scenario happens:
>
> 1) mwifiex check winner status: true
> 2) btmrvl check winner status: true, and start downloading firmware
> 3) mwifiex tries to download firmware, but failed because btmrvl is
> already downloading.
>
> This won't happen if 1) and 3) is an atomic action. This patch adds
> sdio_claim/release_host call around those two actions to make sure it's
> atomic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

As I accidentally applied v1, I need to drop this one.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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