From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:19:21 +0200 > Due to the way it interacts with the networking > stack and other parts of mac80211, ieee80211_rx() > must be called with disabled softirqs. > > Michael, the former maintainer of this driver, > has refused to fix the problem this way instead > proposing a much more invasive patch that could > not even be proved correct wrt. locking inside > mac80211. Regardless of that, he believes this > to be a bug in mac80211, and has also publicly > stated [1] that he does not care about this even > though it is a regression introduced by his own > patches. > > Since nobody else seems to be wanting to fix the > problem, I'll just fix it for the benefit of the > many users of this driver. > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/39440/focus=40266 > > Reported-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
