Re: [PATCH v2.6.36-rc7] mac80211: cancel restart_work explicitlyinstead of depending on flush_scheduled_work()

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 06:58:44PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Friday 15 October 2010 18:39:37 Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hello,
> 
> > >> -    /*
> > >> -     * For key todo, it'll be empty by now but the work
> > >> -     * might still be scheduled.
> > >> -     */
> > >> -    flush_scheduled_work();
> > > 
> > > oops, todo work no longer exists...
> > > 
> > > Anyway, ACK.
> > 
> > Are you going to route this through wireless tree?  Shall I repost
> > with update patch description?
> 
> wireless-testing/wireless-next has already such a patch:
> "mac80211: cancel restart_work in ieee80211_unregister_hw" (2010-08-25)
> 
> <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6.git;a=commit;h=258086a48b766d12a500f98834654ffa927ca475>
> 
> John, can you please push to 2.6.36-rc8?
> (I know, I am _late_, but I didn't know about any potential problem
> in the mainline?)

I don't see how either patch would merit inclusion in 2.6.36 at this point.

John
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