On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 07:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Johannes > Berg<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 17:46 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> We change regulatory code to be protected by its own regulatory > >> spinlock and alleviate cfg80211_mutex to only be used to protect > >> cfg80211_rdev_list, the registered device list. > >> > >> By doing this we will be able to work on regulatory core components > >> without having to have hog up the cfg80211_mutex. An example here is > >> we no longer need to use the cfg80211_mutex during the country IE > >> regulatory hint; by doing so we end up curing this new lockdep warning: > > > > This is ok with me, but be sure that it changes the API between drivers > > and cfg80211 -- the reg notifier can no longer sleep now. > > We could use a mutex as well. Right. I don't care, just wanted you to be aware of the change. I don't expect many drivers to really use the reg notifier stuff so if it doesn't matter for ath.ko it probably just doesn't matter. johannes
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