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Re: [ath5k-devel] Oops with current kernel and ath5k

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On Tue, Oct
Not sure 07, 2008 at 12:44:58PM +0200, Elias Oltmanns wrote:
> Looking through the code, I'm wondering about the atomicity requirements
> of sc->status. In my opinion, __set_bit() is not permissible in various
> places (including your use case). But since this is a problem that has
> been around before, I will send a separate patch once yours has been
> merged.

Ok, I don't see why it's a problem in this case, but I'll look for 
your patch.  Note we should be doing sc->status updates under a mutex
already; if not that's a bug.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

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