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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: fix deadlock in cfg80211_leave_mesh()

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On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 01:53:35PM -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> wdev->mtx is already held). But it does look weird for cfg80211 to
> drop a lock on behalf of the driver.

This did cross my mind, but I thought maybe it made sense to do
it there to make it easier to reason about the code -- if dropped
in mac80211, someone reading the code would have no idea.

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