Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964851AbWHCS6G (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:58:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964862AbWHCS6G (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:58:06 -0400 Received: from atlrel7.hp.com ([156.153.255.213]:37537 "EHLO atlrel7.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964851AbWHCS6E (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:58:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:58:00 -0700 To: Christoph Hellwig , Herbert Xu , Arjan van de Ven , davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, linville@tuxdriver.com, jt@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: orinoco driver causes *lots* of lockdep spew Message-ID: <20060803185800.GB12062@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com References: <1154607380.2965.25.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060803141153.GB20405@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060803141153.GB20405@infradead.org> Organisation: HP Labs Palo Alto Address: HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: jt@hpl.hp.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Jean Tourrilhes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1237 Lines: 31 On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:11:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:54:41PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > > this is another one of those nasty buggers; > > > > Good catch. It's really time that we fix this properly rather than > > adding more kludges to the core code. > > > > Dave, once this goes in you can revert the previous netlink workaround > > that added the _bh suffix. > > > > [WIRELESS]: Send wireless netlink events with a clean slate > > Could we please just get rid of the wireless extensions over netlink code > again? It doesn't help to solve anything and just creates a bigger mess > to untangle when switching to a fully fledged wireless stack. That's not going to happen any time soon, NetworkManager depends on Wireless Events, as well as many other apps. And there is not many mechanisms you can use in the kernel to generate events from driver to userspace. Have fun... Jean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/