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Re: [PATCH] wireless: convert reg_regdb_search_lock to mutex

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:33:38PM +0530, Senthil Balasubramanian wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:19:00AM +0530, John W. Linville wrote:
> > Stanse discovered that kmalloc can be called with GFP_KERNEL while
> This commit log is confusing. It Should be "Stanse discovered kmalloc
> was called with GFP_KERNEL". Obviously kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL shouldn't
> be used while holding a spinlock.
> > holding this spinlock.  It can be a mutex instead.

Not half so confusing as your criticism... :-)

Are you objecting to "can be" instead of "was"?

John
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