On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:13:19AM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:10 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > > The driver already gets notified via sta_notify() that the sta is about > > > to be deleted, it must make sure that no matter what sort of references > > > it kept, the sta will not be accessed after that sta_notify call. > > > > Ah good point. Then what is the issue? > > Well, mostly that ath9k right now assumes it controls the lifetime, and > it won't do that afterwards, so since I didn't want to read all of the > code I failed to change it that way because I didn't know where node > pointers are kept. It's not a huge issue really, but the lifetime > management change is somewhat involved, I think. Sure, it just needs a review. Luis -- 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
