On 7/30/08, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Some users of the RTL8187B have experienced difficulties since commit > 8f87dd7e540d455f8e7f11478133b85edc969c67 that introduced the power > management wext hooks. This difficulty has not made much sense until > it was realized that it was possible for mac80211 to make a call to the > config routine while that routine was already being executed. This patch > protects the critical section with a mutex. > > The problem was found by Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > who also suggested this type of fix. > > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The mutex patch seems to also improve interaction with NetworkManager/wpa_supplicant (possibly duo core issues as well?). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
