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Re: [RFC 3/5] nl80211/cfg80211: adding intermediate scan result event.

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On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 10:13 +0300, Victor Goldenshtein wrote: 
> On 22/09/2011 09:49, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> 
> > I guess what Johannes meant is that you can send the genl message in
> > atomic context, so you don't need to save stuff and use the event work.
> > You can just send it immediately when cfg80211_inform_bss() and
> > cfg80211_inform_bss_frame() are called.
> >
> > I'm not really sure you can send genl messages while atomic, I think I
> > had problems with that earlier, but you can try. ;)
> >
> 
> ;)
> 
> Well I already did, and it's not working, when you"ll try to send genl 
> messages while atomic, you will get kernel warning regarding "sleeping 
> function called from invalid context".

That's what I thought.  Johannes?

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Cheers,
Luca.

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