On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 14:09 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > NACK Conditional locking is bad design. > > Either lock or not, make up your mind and fix the devices. That was because I don't think we can go fixing all current wext users which might even be out of tree. > It is also wrong because all entities in the kernel assume > that network configuration changes all occur under the RTNL > therefore it must be held consistently everywhere. So you're saying that cfg80211 should hold rtnl too? I don't see any point in holding rtnl (for example) for setting the SSID of a wireless device. johannes
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