From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:53985 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030943AbXDSKMw (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:12:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] wext: allow wext users without rtnl From: Johannes Berg To: David Miller Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, flamingice@sourmilk.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070418.140956.116355415.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1176825010.3902.28.camel@johannes.berg> <20070418140451.075370fc@freekitty> <20070418.140956.116355415.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-snyHhy2GCkyz442SrozA" Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:12:16 +0200 Message-Id: <1176977537.6141.75.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-snyHhy2GCkyz442SrozA Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 14:09 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > NACK Conditional locking is bad design. > > Either lock or not, make up your mind and fix the devices. That was because I don't think we can go fixing all current wext users which might even be out of tree. > It is also wrong because all entities in the kernel assume > that network configuration changes all occur under the RTNL > therefore it must be held consistently everywhere. So you're saying that cfg80211 should hold rtnl too? I don't see any point in holding rtnl (for example) for setting the SSID of a wireless device. johannes --=-snyHhy2GCkyz442SrozA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGJ0CA/ETPhpq3jKURAt9xAJ47z1uDJB3dO/NndWVQxhfG8QTg2ACfQpuo ZdEj2MXGtCAqzr9x7ITLtYU= =WQmT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-snyHhy2GCkyz442SrozA--