From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755688AbdABMVv (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2017 07:21:51 -0500 Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([5.9.151.49]:37900 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751570AbdABMVu (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2017 07:21:50 -0500 Message-ID: <1483359705.21014.0.camel@sipsolutions.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] rfkill: Add rfkill-any LED trigger From: Johannes Berg To: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_K=C4=99pie=C5=84?= , "David S . Miller" Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=9C=D0=B8=D1=85=D0=B0=D0=B8=D0=BB_?= =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=9A=D1=80=D0=B8=D0=BD=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=BD?= , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 13:21:45 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1483355533.4596.11.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20170102_121239_821112_5D7AEC4A) References: <20161221084533.27006-1-kernel@kempniu.pl> (sfid-20161221_094622_545524_B00A9AE7) <1483355533.4596.11.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20170102_121239_821112_5D7AEC4A) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.2-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I'm not super happy with this conditional locking - can't we instead > defer the necessary work to a workqueue, or so, for purposes of the > LED? Actually, since you can sleep in here, and do various other things like scheduling etc. this can't even be correct as is - one thread might be in the probe and another might also attempt to do some operations that require the lock but now don't take it. johannes