linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "staging: wilc1000: Replace kthread with workqueue for host interface"

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Date:   Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:22:15 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Aditya Shankar <Aditya.Shankar@...rochip.com>
Cc:     ganesh.krishna@...rochip.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nicolas.Ferre@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "staging: wilc1000: Replace kthread with
 workqueue for host interface"

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 03:43:18PM +0530, Aditya Shankar wrote:
> This reverts commit 2518ac59eb27 ("staging: wilc1000: Replace kthread
> with workqueue for host interface")
> 
> This commit breaks wilc1000 driver init. A crash was seen
> everytime the wlan interface was brought up and wilc device
> open was attempted. This change is being reverted until we
> figure out the problem in this change. The driver is
> usable now with this change reverted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Shankar <Aditya.Shankar@...rochip.com>
> 
> Conflicts:
> 	drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c

What is this line doing here?

And shouldn't we add a cc: stable tag as well?  Or at the least, put a
"fixes:" tag to let people know exactly what commit it is fixing (the
id that it is reverting.)

thanks,

greg k-h