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Re: [PATCH] wext: allow wext users without rtnl

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:53:42 +0200

> Since the discussion came up due to dropping the rtnl from wext I think
> that it may be beneficial if we added rtnl locking to cfg80211 now to
> simplify migration away from wext which holds rtnl and then revisit the
> locking when we can drop wext completely from the mac80211 code. That
> would allow us to revisit rtnl locking for wext when we have completely
> migrated to cfg80211 and wext is only handled through cfg80211.
> 
> Does that sound like an acceptable way forward?

Sure.
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