On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Michael Buesch<mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> John, can you revert the BH patch ("mac80211: do not use irq locks where
>> not necessary") and I'll send a new one with those changes removed?
>
> I didn't look at the code, but can't we simply request the beacon from
> mac80211 before locking? Or isn't the spin_lock_irqsave() done in the driver?
>
We could drop the lock around it, but it'd be nice to keep the option
open here. For example, some people want to move the beacon tasklet
into the hard IRQ - in that case the driver would have to jump through
a lot of hoops to refresh the beacon.
--
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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