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Re: [RFC 2/3] mac80211: protect ->scanning by mutex in ieee80211_work_work()

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On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:54:13PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> I don't really see the point in this. It seems that this doesn't really
> help, you'd actually have to protect all the work stuff here with the
> mutex so the scanning can also be excluded or so?

You mean some other work stuff than ieee80211_work_work() ?

We have almost all ieee80211_work_work() code protected by local->mtx
already, I just moved local->scanning check after the mutex_lock.

Stanislaw
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