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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ath5k : ath5k_config_interface deadlock fix
Jiri Slaby napsal(a):
> Bob Copeland napsal(a):
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Andrew Morton
>> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:03:37 +0300 Pekka Enberg
>>> <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>>>> Dave Young napsal(a):
>>>>>> In the drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c, there's recursive
>>>>>> locking of
>>>>>> sc->lock
>>>>> Should be fixed already:
>>>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=bc05116ab33d30342e2b4b1bcc6d6e1184e9df97
>>>>>
>>>> I guess that didn't make it to -stable?
>>> (cc stable!)
>>
>> Not to worry, the commit that introduced it was
>> 9d139c810a2aa17365cc548d0cd2a189d8433c65, which as far as I can tell
>> came in after 2.6.26.
>
> git-describe 9d139c810a2aa17365cc548d0cd2a189d8433c65
> v2.6.26-rc8-1219-g9d139c8

Fingers faster than brain. Why such a change went into -rc8? How long has
this been in linux-next? It appeared in mmotm between 2008-07-15-15-39 and
2008-07-23-02-07 which I think correspond to -next appearance -- isn't it
way too fast?


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