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Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH] ath5k: disable all tasklets while resetting

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On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I have no idea how long a reset can take, but this means that all these
>> tasklets will spin while your reset is running if they were scheduled.
>
> It looks to me like tasklet_action() will bail out when the tasklet has a
> positive t->count (which disable elevates) rather than spin.  What did I
> miss?

As Johannes pointed out on irc, I missed that it re-raises the softirq.  doh!

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