Re: orinoco driver causes *lots* of lockdep spew

[Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>]

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
> 
> Drivers expect to be able to call wireless_send_event in arbitrary
> contexts.  On the other hand, netlink really doesn't like being
> invoked in an IRQ context.  So we need to postpone the sending of
> netlink skb's to a tasklet.

	Yes, this was needed. I really like the way you implemented
it, simple and efficient. Go for it !

> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> 

	For what it's worth :
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>

> Cheers,

	Thanks !

	Jean
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