Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964867AbWHCTCy (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:02:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964868AbWHCTCx (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:02:53 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:21121 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964866AbWHCTCw (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:02:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:59:58 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Jean Tourrilhes Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Herbert Xu , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, linville@tuxdriver.com Subject: Re: orinoco driver causes *lots* of lockdep spew Message-ID: <20060803185958.GC11577@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Jean Tourrilhes , Christoph Hellwig , Herbert Xu , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, linville@tuxdriver.com References: <1154607380.2965.25.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060803141153.GB20405@infradead.org> <20060803185800.GB12062@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060803185800.GB12062@bougret.hpl.hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1440 Lines: 34 On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:58:00AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > 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. It seemed to cope pretty well before we had this ? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/