On 2012-03-05 8:33 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 07:24:44PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: >> On 2012-02-29 7:08 PM, John W. Linville wrote: >> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 07:58:39PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: >> >> The approach of this change is flawed, as it triggers tx status processing >> >> from more callsites, yet the chips only have one global tx status queue. >> >> Subsequent patches will properly fix the issue that this one tried to address. >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> > >> > How flawed is the current approach? That commit looks like it has been >> > around for months already. Does it really _need_ to be fixed in 3.3? >> It only slightly reduces the severity of the issue it tried to address, >> while adding some ugly race conditions. It is not possible to properly >> fix the issue without a revert of that commit, so I really would like to >> see this patch series in 3.3. > > I am happy to take this series for 3.4, but it seems quite late > for 3.3. We have been living with it for a while already. OK, no problem. I'm using bleeding edge anyway ;) - Felix -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
