On Wednesday 18 July 2007 11:13, John W. Linville wrote: > I didn't see an answer here. Before we remove it, I'd prefer to know > what we thought we were protecting in the first place. :-) > It prevents BSSID/SSID/channel configuration from racing against userspace configuration of the same thing. It's unlikely, however, and this deadlock is much more serious than that race. I answered this in the patch for removing the rtnl (01-kill-rtnl-locking.diff), though I wasn't as specific. This patch should probably also go to stable. -Michael Wu
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