Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: block ioctls until card fully initialised | From | Richard Kennedy <> | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:14:34 +0000 |
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On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 18:21 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:19:18PM +0000, Richard Kennedy wrote: > > Add a mutex to block ioctls before the card is fully initialised and > > only allow one ioctl at a time. > > This stops udev trying to load the firmware before to card is fully up. > > > > patch ported from wlan-ng-devel > > > > Karl Relton <karllinuxtest.relton@ntlworld.com> spotted that this was > > missing from the staging version, > > http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2009-February/003890.html > > Karl sent me a patch a few days before you that also added this > functionality. > > Unfortunatly, both of your patches don't apply to the latest version of > the wlan-ng driver as it has had a lot of work done on it recently. > > Could one of you grab the linux-next tree and make a patch up against > the version in it so that I can apply this? > > thanks, > > greg k-h Sorry about that, I'd forgotten that wlan-ng was included in linux-next.
I've updated the patch and am just testing it & will post it shortly.
BTW thanks to Moritz Muehlenhoff for the clean-ups.
regards Richard
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