Re: [PATCH] net: wireless: airo semaphore to mutex

[Daniel Walker]

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 09:48 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> Yeah, that might be the right way to go.  If you want to jump into the
> driver, feel quite free, but I don't think you need to go into too much
> detail with it.  Your overall behavior analysis is right on the mark
> already.

I think we could just remove the trylock from the interrupt case, and
always force the wake_up_interruptible(&priv->thr_wait) case. It looks
like the trylocking is just an optimization to save a wakeup ..

Daniel

 

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