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Re: [PATCH 01/13 v2] o11s: (nl80211/cfg80211) support for mesh interfaces and mesh paths

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On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 17:31 -0800, Luis Carlos Cobo wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 17:03 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Can you do that in both nl80211 and mac80211 for both STAs and paths?
> > Look at net/netlink/genetlink.c ctrl_dumpfamily() for an example.
> 
> I'm not sure I completely get what changes are necessary.

Actually, none are. I was totally wrong about all the stuff. Sorry.

> What I understand is that I should acquire (if idx == 0) and release
> (just before returning -ENOENT) the rtnl_lock() from within (mac80211 or
> equivalent) dump_station function instead of from nl80211_dump_station.
> Is this the whole idea?

That was completely wrong, I was trying to guarantee a consistent dump
but that is impossible.

johannes

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