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Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: remove input device and fix rfkill state

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On Tue, 01 Jul 2008, Adel Gadllah wrote:
> The calls to iwl|iwl3945_rfkill_set_hw_state() had to be moved because
> rfkill_force_state() cannot be called from an atomic context.

Yeah, the joys of mutexes.  If this is going to be a severe annoyance to
drivers, I don't see why rfkill could not be changed to use some other
locking primitive that does work on atomic contexes.

But I am not the right person to do it, I am still learning about all
the different locking flavours in Linux.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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