Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([144.76.43.152]:36769 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756008Ab3EJO1N (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 May 2013 10:27:13 -0400 Message-ID: <1368196028.8390.18.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20130510_162721_054162_B62A4BEF) Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] cfg80211/mac80211: simplify locking From: Johannes Berg To: Ben Greear Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 16:27:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: <518D0390.90006@candelatech.com> References: <1368187689-29706-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net> <518D0390.90006@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 07:26 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > On 05/10/2013 05:08 AM, 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 :) > > I'm stacked high with tasks at the moment, but will try to > run this through some testing soon. > > These are in your tree? In the wip branch, for now. johannes