linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Fix race conditions in mrf24j40 interrupts

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Date:	Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:32:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alan@...nal11.us
Cc:	alex.bluesman.smirnov@...il.com, dbaryshkov@...il.com,
	david@...weele.net, linux-zigbee-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Fix race conditions in mrf24j40 interrupts

From: Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us>
Date: Sat,  5 Oct 2013 23:52:21 -0400

> After testing with the betas of this patchset, it's been rebased and is
> ready for inclusion.
> 
> David Hauweele noticed that the mrf24j40 would hang arbitrarily after some
> period of heavy traffic.  Two race conditions were discovered, and the
> driver was changed to use threaded interrupts, since the enable/disable of
> interrupts in the driver has recently been a lighning rod whenever issues
> arise related to interrupts (costing engineering time), and since threaded
> interrupts are the right way to do it.

Series applied, thanks.
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