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On Sunday 24 January 2010 12:47:52 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 12:45 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 January 2010 12:32:50 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > > >>> We can just remove the lock and add a comment explaining why it is not locked...
> > > 
> > > Mind you, it won't work on SDIO hardware since the callback cannot
> > > sleep, contrary to what Kalle documented :(
> > 
> > I don't understand. Why wouldn't SDIO be allowed to sleep?
> 
> Because this is called within the RX path code which does
> rcu_read_lock() around it.

Ok, I see. I can live with that, because tkip hwcrypto defaults to off.

> Really, somebody just needs to go and add key TODO in mac80211 to pick
> up phase1 key changes and update them in the driver, that gets rid of
> all the locking and atomic problems.

Too bad I don't understand all that tkip key handling stuff. :)

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Greetings, Michael.
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