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Re: [PATCH 6/6] cfg80211: move regulatory hints to workqueue

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Johannes Berg
>> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:36 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>> Driver and userspace regulatory hints are now processed in
>>>> a workqueue. This should fix some lockdep warnings which complain
>>>> about possible circular locking dependencies such as:
>>>
>>> Yes, but I need to look at the one Reinette posted and fix that one,
>>> which will probably require a different solution.
>>
>> Oh I didn't see that one. How different?
>
> I see an rtnl lock issue against scanning and the drv mutex. Doesn't
> seem to be related to regulatory. So how would that affect a path to
> move hints to a workqueue?

Oh you mean the rntl_lock() and drv mutex is _still_ an issue?

  Luis
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