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Re: [PATCH 18/25] iwlagn: warn about nested SYNC commands

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On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 08:34 -0700, Wey-Yi Guy wrote:
> From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Since there is no protection around SYNC host command mechanism, at least WARN
> when collision happens between two SYNC host comamnds. I am not sure there is a
> real  issue (beyond the HCMD_ACTIVE flag maintenance) with having two SYNC host
> commands at the same time, but at least now, we will know about it.

Please drop this particular patch. We discussed this but then forgot
about it -- this patch only warns when collisions actually happen, but
we can use lockdep to warn when collisions _could_ happen as well.

johannes

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