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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