Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 3 Apr 2022 10:44:46 +0200 | Subject | Re: staging: r8188eu: how to handle nested mutex under spinlock | From | Michael Straube <> |
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On 4/2/22 23:32, Larry Finger wrote: > In drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi, we had a similar problem. There > it was handled by putting the lps_enter() and lps_leave() operations in > a separate workqueue. In this case, the routines were rtl_lps_enter() > and rtl_lps_leave(). Each of them sets a variable to indicate whether > enter_ps is true or false, and schedules the workqueue. In the > workqueue's callback routine, the routines to start/stop ps mode are > called. The code is in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/ps.c. > > This solution is only one of many, and there may be a better one. > > Larry >
Thank you for the explanation Larry.
Michael
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