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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] cfg80211/mac80211: simplify locking
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 07:26:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <518D0390.90006@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1368187689-29706-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net>

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?

Thanks,
Ben

>
> johannes
>


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-10 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-10 12:08 [RFC 0/4] cfg80211/mac80211: simplify locking Johannes Berg
2013-05-10 12:08 ` [RFC 1/4] cfg80211: move cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex under wext Johannes Berg
2013-05-10 12:08 ` [RFC 2/4] cfg80211: use atomic_t for wiphy counter Johannes Berg
2013-05-10 12:08 ` [RFC 3/4] cfg80211: vastly simplify locking Johannes Berg
2013-05-10 12:08 ` [RFC 4/4] cfg80211/mac80211: use cfg80211 wdev mutex in mac80211 Johannes Berg
2013-05-10 12:22   ` Arend van Spriel
2013-05-10 12:26     ` Johannes Berg
2013-05-11 16:19       ` Arend van Spriel
2013-05-13  7:09         ` Johannes Berg
2013-05-10 12:09 ` [RFC 0/4] cfg80211/mac80211: simplify locking Johannes Berg
2013-05-10 14:26 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2013-05-10 14:27   ` Johannes Berg

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