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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Remove TSF atomic requirement from the documentation

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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 23:08 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>> Alina, it would be nice to explicitly mention that the function can
>> sleep. Otherwise driver authors need to guess if sleeping is allowed
>> or not.
>
> That's a larger project to actually annotate all of them either way ;) 

Yes, but we can start with smaller pieces ;)

> I think we only mention atomicity requirements right now.

I found only one spot:

 * @set_key: See the section "Hardware crypto acceleration"
 *	This callback can sleep, and is only called between add_interface

But, like you said, we can add these later.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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