From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/24] regulatory: clarify locking rules and assertions
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:16:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1354922175.9124.34.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=NE6VmfjfYeDirc-L-cPMmE6b4f_4iAK+nuDUs1-XUeLCO7w@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20121208_001212_101049_8080CCCD)
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 15:11 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > The reason for this is that nl80211 uses the regdom
> > without being able to hold reg_mutex.
>
> Hm, do we want to do this or add a caller to reg.c that gets nl80211
> to copy over the current regdomain over for it to parse and then send?
> In that case we'd only need the cfg80211_mutex for
> update_all_wiphy_regulatory(). Thoughts?
I think you should look at the later patches :)
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-07 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-06 16:47 [PATCH 00/24] regulatory fixes, cleanups & improvements Johannes Berg
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 01/24] regulatory: don't write past array when intersecting rules Johannes Berg
2012-12-06 23:43 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-07 7:53 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-10 21:55 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-12 1:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 02/24] regulatory: don't allocate too much memory Johannes Berg
2012-12-06 23:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-07 7:54 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 03/24] regulatory: clean up regdom_intersect Johannes Berg
2012-12-06 23:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 04/24] regulatory: clean up reg_copy_regd() Johannes Berg
2012-12-06 23:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 05/24] regulatory: don't test list before iterating Johannes Berg
2012-12-07 0:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 06/24] regulatory: simplify regulatory_hint_11d Johannes Berg
2012-12-07 0:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 07/24] regulatory: code cleanup Johannes Berg
2012-12-07 0:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 08/24] regulatory: remove useless locking on exit Johannes Berg
2012-12-07 0:16 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 09/24] regulatory: use proper enum for return values Johannes Berg
2012-12-07 0:20 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 10/24] cfg80211: remove wiphy_idx_valid Johannes Berg
2012-12-07 0:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 11/24] regulatory: remove BUG_ON Johannes Berg
2012-12-07 0:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 12/24] regulatory: simplify restore_regulatory_settings Johannes Berg
2012-12-07 0:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 13/24] regulatory: remove redundant isalpha() check Johannes Berg
2012-12-07 0:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 14/24] regulatory: remove useless warning Johannes Berg
2012-12-07 0:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 15/24] regulatory: simplify freq_reg_info_regd Johannes Berg
2012-12-07 1:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 16/24] regulatory: clarify locking rules and assertions Johannes Berg
2012-12-07 23:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-07 23:16 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-12-13 20:57 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 17/24] regulatory: remove locking from wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 21:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 18/24] regulatory: fix reg_is_valid_request handling Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 21:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-13 21:35 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 22:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 19/24] regulatory: remove handling of channel bandwidth Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 22:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-14 10:35 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-14 10:36 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 20/24] regulatory: fix memory leak Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 21:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-13 21:37 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 21/24] regulatory: pass new regdomain to reset function Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 21:42 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 22/24] regulatory: use RCU to protect global and wiphy regdomains Johannes Berg
2012-12-10 17:05 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 21:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 23/24] regulatory: use RCU to protect last_request Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 22:07 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 24/24] regulatory: use IS_ERR macro family for freq_reg_info Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 22:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-20 11:15 ` [PATCH 00/24] regulatory fixes, cleanups & improvements Johannes Berg
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