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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2.6.36-rc7] mac80211: cancel restart_work explicitly instead of depending on flush_scheduled_work()
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. I'm not sure
whether the cancel_work_sync() is a bug fix or not but if it hasn't
actually triggered yet, I guess leaving it as-is isn't too bad at this
point.

Thanks.

--
tejun


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