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Re: mac80211: ieee80211_ops.bss_info_changed question

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Reinette,

> In the comments about bss_info_changed it is said that the callback has
> to be atomic. I was looking at it and could only find that it is called
> either from the workqueue or an ioctl. It thus seems that we may be able
> to sleep in there. I likely missed the spot where it needs to be atomic
> ... could you please direct me to it?

I think you may be right, I can't find any spots either. I was likely
mislead when writing that by the fact that much of the code in
ieee80211_sta.c uses GFP_ATOMIC while it actually runs from a workqueue,
which is actually confusing me still.

johannes

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