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Re: [PATCH] ath5k: Invoke irqsafe version of ieee80211_tx_status() to avoid deadlock

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On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 18:34 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
>> From: Javier Cardona <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This driver reports transmission status to the upper layer
>> (ath5k_tx_frame_completed()) while holding the lock on the transmission
>> queue (txq->lock).  Under failure conditions, the mesh stack will
>> attempt to send PERR messages to the previous sender of the failed
>> frame.
>
> I'd feel a lot more comfortable if the mesh stack didn't do that. I
> suppose it could use ieee80211_add_pending_skb() instead?

Suggestion taken.  We'll implement that.

Cheers,

Javier
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