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

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On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 10:40 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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.

Oops, n/m, I see it's already in. Will submit a follow-up that puts
better code in place instead.

johannes

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