Re: [PATCH v2] wireless: wl12xx, fix lock imbalance

[Kalle Valo]

Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Add omitted mutex_unlock to one of wl12xx_op_start fail paths (when
> wl12xx_chip_wakeup fails).

Thanks for fixing this.

> [v2]
> Power off the device, because:
> \= cite from http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124755028209880&w=2
> If the chip cannot be booted, why should it remain powered on?
> In some rare cases, the chip might fail to initialize, but can
> recover if powered off and on again, so turning it off at this
> point is the right thing to do. =/

Yes, I agree with this.

> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c |    2 +-

Unfortunately this won't apply to wireless-testing because main.c is
renamed to wl1251_main.c. Can you respin the patch or do you want me to
do it? I'm sending other wl12xx patches anyway and it's easy for me to
rebase this one at the same time.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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