On Thursday 26 June 2008, Johannes Berg wrote:
> This patch makes the mac80211 workqueue freezable making it
> interact a bit better with system suspend and not try to ping
> the AP while the hardware is down.
>
> This doesn't really help with implementing proper suspend in
> any way but makes some bad things trigger less.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I'm not sure whether we should put this into 2.6.26 or not, while it
> might help a bit it doesn't really do much over what the tx bugs finder
> already does except avoid sending out the packets that froze b43 in the
> first place...
>
> Ivo, you might consider using create_freezeable_workqueue for your
> rt2x00 patch though.
Will do. Thanks for the tip.
Ivo
> net/mac80211/main.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- everything.orig/net/mac80211/main.c 2008-06-26 18:21:14.000000000 +0200
> +++ everything/net/mac80211/main.c 2008-06-26 18:21:16.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1774,7 +1774,7 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee802
> list_add_tail(&sdata->list, &local->interfaces);
>
> name = wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy)->driver->name;
> - local->hw.workqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue(name);
> + local->hw.workqueue = create_freezeable_workqueue(name);
> if (!local->hw.workqueue) {
> result = -ENOMEM;
> goto fail_workqueue;
>
>
>
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