Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: wireless: airo semaphore to mutex | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Tue, 27 May 2008 08:08:35 -0700 |
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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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