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Subject: Re: RFC/T: Trial fix for the bcm43xx - wpa_supplicant -	NetworkManager
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Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 19:32 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
>> I don't think this is the right thing to do.
> 
> Or put differently, this won't fix the problem if that "something:
> that's triggering the deadlock happens while you're in the locked
> section.

I'm going to install NM on my system to see if I can trigger the problem with lockdep enabled.

Larry