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Re: [PATCH 4/5] ath9k: Fix a locking related issue.

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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Spin_lock has been tried to be acquired twice from ath9k_tasklet
>> to ath_reset which resulted in a machine freeze.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
> Was this a stable fix? :(
>

Actually this was meant to be a quickfix for the panic we had noticed.
A proper fix would be to review all the spinlocks in ath9k and do a
revamp. Anyhow, such a revamp might take some time and before that we
will have this patch for stable. Thanks a lot, I will resend this to
stable.

Vivek.
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