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Re: [PATCH v2 09/22] ath9k: Handle fatal interrupts properly

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On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 14:29 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2012-05-24 6:02 AM, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> > When a fatal interrupt is received or it is detected that the baseband
> > has hung, the chip has to be reset immediately.  Otherwise, we end up
> > processing spurious interrupts. Ensure that we bail out properly in
> > the ISR when the reset work hasn't completed yet.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Wouldn't it be much easier to just use a bool variable instead of the
> combination of lock+flag? A simple variable assignment is atomic...

Is that guaranteed for bool variables?

johannes

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