On Wednesday 30 July 2008 20:11:11 Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > Em Wednesday 30 July 2008 14:46:40 Michael Buesch escreveu: > > On Wednesday 30 July 2008 19:13:52 Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > > > > Yeah, I said exactly that. > > > > You protect the loopback stuff. Not any config callback or anything else. > > > > > > Ah ok, only protect the section, like this? > > > > Yeah, well. In theory, yes. In practice: Aren't there other races possible, too? > > I mean even races with other parts of the driver. > > b43 needs to take the global driver mutex in the conf callback to make > > sure nothing changes (device init state probably is the most important one. > > Device going down while configuring would be a fatal crash). > > In practice I don't get other problems, but better to stick to the patch posted > by Larry, Yeah, OK. I'm fine with that. I was just pointing out possible future problems. > like he said to avoid config data from one call mixed to the other. Nah, we're not locking calls ;P -- Greetings Michael. -- 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
