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Re: [PATCH 1/3] mac80211: add power state transition callbacks

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On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 18:06 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:

> > The only thing I was thinking is that it's not a good plan to have a
> > callback that has different locking requirements depending on a
> > parameter.
> 
> yeah...  go back to the extra sta_notify_ps callback approach?

Fine with me, yeah. It's not very complicated so we can always change it
again later.

> I tried to do this with workqueues, but It turned out that queue_work
> doesn't work since we disabled the irqs in the rx path.
> ( http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2005-02/3350.html
>  has a story about the bitter consequences of queue_work & irq_disabled) 

Interesting.

johannes

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