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On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 11:06 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> Some drivers (like ath9k_htc) will take a mutex in
> rate_control_rate_update(), so drop the sta lock before we
> get there.

That driver is broken then. rate_control_rate_update() can be called
from the RX path where this also isn't allowed.

johannes