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[PATCH] Send wireless netlink events with a clean slate
authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:54:41 +0000 (23:54 +1000)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:57:19 +0000 (14:57 -0400)
commit782a6675119c76c071e74e2ddd98268f47770cba
tree83815eb8984242ec93a632694d0d243ec8ccd691tree | snapshot
parentefe78cda3596f8a6d1c2d4a6b1a221bafa3e1a48commit | diff
[PATCH] 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.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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