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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Allow sleeping in set_key op

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On Sunday 06 May 2007 14:37, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Allow drivers to sleep in the setkey function, as it's rather
> complicated to defer set_key to a workqueue in the driver
> (error code is lost, keyconf->hw_key_idx is possibly hard
> to get right.)
>
I'd rather not defer to a workqueue. That just patches over the awkward 
locking that the sta_info code has, which is really the reason why you can't 
sleep in set_key.

-Michael Wu

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