Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:59:58 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: orinoco driver causes *lots* of lockdep spew |
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:58:00AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:11:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:54:41PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > this is another one of those nasty buggers; > > > > > > Good catch. It's really time that we fix this properly rather than > > > adding more kludges to the core code. > > > > > > Dave, once this goes in you can revert the previous netlink workaround > > > that added the _bh suffix. > > > > > > [WIRELESS]: Send wireless netlink events with a clean slate > > > > Could we please just get rid of the wireless extensions over netlink code > > again? It doesn't help to solve anything and just creates a bigger mess > > to untangle when switching to a fully fledged wireless stack. > > That's not going to happen any time soon, NetworkManager > depends on Wireless Events, as well as many other apps. And there is > not many mechanisms you can use in the kernel to generate events from > driver to userspace.
It seemed to cope pretty well before we had this ?
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