On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 11:38 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 11:06 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote: > > Some drivers (like ath9k_htc) will take a mutex in > > rate_control_rate_update(), so drop the sta lock before we > > get there. > > That driver is broken then. rate_control_rate_update() can be called > from the RX path where this also isn't allowed. * @sta_rc_update: Notifies the driver of changes to the bitrates that can be * used to transmit to the station. The changes are advertised with bits * from &enum ieee80211_rate_control_changed and the values are reflected * in the station data. This callback should only be used when the driver * uses hardware rate control (%IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL) since * otherwise the rate control algorithm is notified directly. * Must be atomic. (note last line) johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
