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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: annotate sleeping driver ops

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Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Saturday 28 November 2009 21:19:26 Kalle Valo wrote:
>> mac80211 doesn't seem to use get_tx_stats anywhere currently. Just to be on
>> the safe side, I documented it to be atomic, but hopefully the op can be
>> removed in the future.
>
> Well, b43 takes a mutex in that callback. I think that's OK, because if it's
> never called, it's pretty safe to sleep there. ;)

Yeah, it should be safe. And I'm planning to remove this code anyway,
see the other thread I started.

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Kalle Valo
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