Re: [PATCH v3] mwifiex: fix sleep in atomic context bugs caused by dev_coredumpv

From: Brian Norris
Date: Mon May 23 2022 - 15:43:22 EST


(I think people generally agreed on this approach, but please submit a
new series, with separate patches)

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:27 PM <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What's more, I move the operations that may sleep into a work item and use
> schedule_work() to call a kernel thread to do the operations that may sleep.

You end up with a timer that just exists to kick a work item. Eric
suggested you just use a delayed_work, and then you don't need both a
timer and a work struct.

Brian