From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>,
Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@Atheros.com>,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] mac80211 cleanups and fixes
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:31:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080911173153.GC6049@tesla> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221153199.6986.39.camel@johannes.berg>
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:13:19AM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:10 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
> > > The driver already gets notified via sta_notify() that the sta is about
> > > to be deleted, it must make sure that no matter what sort of references
> > > it kept, the sta will not be accessed after that sta_notify call.
> >
> > Ah good point. Then what is the issue?
>
> Well, mostly that ath9k right now assumes it controls the lifetime, and
> it won't do that afterwards, so since I didn't want to read all of the
> code I failed to change it that way because I didn't know where node
> pointers are kept. It's not a huge issue really, but the lifetime
> management change is somewhat involved, I think.
Sure, it just needs a review.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-11 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-10 22:01 [PATCH 00/18] mac80211 cleanups and fixes Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 01/18] mac80211: move ieee80211_sta_expire Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 02/18] mac80211: move STA timer restart Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 03/18] mac80211: dont set REQ_RUN when scan finishes Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 04/18] mac80211: split off mesh handling entirely Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 05/18] mac80211: fix work race Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 06/18] mac80211: fix scan vs. interface removal race Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 07/18] mac80211: reorder MLME code more Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 08/18] mac80211: move ieee80211_set_freq to utils Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 09/18] mac80211: make bridge_packets a virtual interface option Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 10/18] mac80211: clean up scan namespace Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 11/18] mac80211: clean up some comments Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 12/18] mac80211: inform driver of basic rateset Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 13/18] mac80211: use nl80211 interface types Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:01 ` [PATCH 14/18] mac80211: move regular interface handling Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:02 ` [PATCH 15/18] mac80211: warn on some invalid vlan operations Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:02 ` [PATCH 16/18] mac80211 hwsim: verify vif pointers Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 0:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-11 0:09 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 0:17 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-11 0:16 ` [PATCH v2 " Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:02 ` [PATCH 17/18] mac80211: share STA information with driver Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 22:02 ` [PATCH 18/18] mac80211 hwsim: verify sta pointers Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 0:17 ` [PATCH v2 " Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 19:26 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 0:03 ` [PATCH 19/18] mac80211: small rate control changes Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 0:22 ` [PATCH 20/18] mac80211: move last_txrate_idx into RC algorithms Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 0:45 ` [PATCH 21/18] mac80211: share sta->supp_rates Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 1:04 ` [PATCH 22/18] mac80211: move txrate_idx into RC algorithms Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 1:14 ` [PATCH 23/18] mac80211: share sta_info->ht_info Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 1:17 ` [PATCH 24/18] iwlwifi: don't access mac80211's AMPDU state machine Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 3:27 ` [PATCH 25/18] mac80211: pass AP vif pointer for VLANs Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 8:29 ` [PATCH 00/18] mac80211 cleanups and fixes Sujith
2008-09-11 13:22 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 16:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-11 16:53 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 17:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-11 17:13 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 17:31 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2008-09-11 17:33 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-11 17:39 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 17:42 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 17:47 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 17:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-12 3:14 ` Sujith
2008-09-12 7:45 ` Johannes Berg
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