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

From: Christian Lamparter
Date: Fri Oct 15 2010 - 16:13:47 EST


On Friday 15 October 2010 21:33:20 Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 10/15/2010 09:26 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> My patch definitely was aimed for 2.6.37-rc1 or later.
Oh, so the "[PATCH v2.6.36-rc7]" in the patch subject was just "misleading" me.
no-one could have known that there would be a 2.6.36-rc8 release.

John, please ignore my previous request of pushing the patch into 2.6.36 ;).

Regards,
Chr
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