Return-path: Received: from mail-gh0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:48342 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751436Ab2ECRKa (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2012 13:10:30 -0400 Received: by ghrr11 with SMTP id r11so1976941ghr.19 for ; Thu, 03 May 2012 10:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FA2BC00.9020804@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20120503_191034_422656_DAC1E22C) Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 12:10:24 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Roys CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] rtlwifi: avoid race registering with mac80211 References: <4FA212D9.5020602@gtri.gatech.edu> <4FA21339.8060407@gtri.gatech.edu> In-Reply-To: <4FA21339.8060407@gtri.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/03/2012 12:10 AM, Joshua Roys wrote: This patch is totally wrong. It is possible that there is a race condition, and it may be the source of the problem at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43187, but this patch fails when the firmware is not cached. As a result, it prevents my box from booting. I will try to find a fix for both conditions. Larry