On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 02:32 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Johannes Berg >> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Move bss_conf into the vif struct so that drivers can >> > access it during ->tx without having to store it in >> > the private data or similar. No driver updates because >> > this is only for when they want to start using it. >> >> What protection should driver take to be sure it won't be changed underneath ? >> With prive copy you know this is changed only in bss_info changed is called. > > Yeah, that's true, I guess you can only access those fields there that > you can access atomically. That's actually most of the fields though. > > Also, we don't actually take care about locking this structure at all > even in mac80211, something we might need to think about. When working on SM PS I have the same dilemma I have with ieee80211_conf do you think I need to take a private copy of it? Thanks Tomas > > johannes > -- 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
