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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] cfg80211/mac80211: simplify locking
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 14:09:24 +0200
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On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 14:08 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> I got a little fed up with all the locking, and decided to simplify.
> 
> This should still work, but I've only done some very simple tests.
> I'm hoping it'll fix some of the weird corner cases that Ben and
> others have found, which may be due to different locks in different
> cases and things racing against each other ... I'm not convinced it
> really will though, but hey, who knows :)

Of course, this is also always a good thing:

 24 files changed, 322 insertions(+), 803 deletions(-)

johannes