From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] mac80211: protect ->scanning by mutex in ieee80211_work_work()
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:16:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120316131644.GB10844@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331902453.6753.4.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:54:13PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> I don't really see the point in this. It seems that this doesn't really
> help, you'd actually have to protect all the work stuff here with the
> mutex so the scanning can also be excluded or so?
You mean some other work stuff than ieee80211_work_work() ?
We have almost all ieee80211_work_work() code protected by local->mtx
already, I just moved local->scanning check after the mutex_lock.
Stanislaw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-16 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-16 12:02 [RFC 1/3] mac80211: do not scan and monitor connection in parallel Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-16 12:02 ` [RFC 2/3] mac80211: protect ->scanning by mutex in ieee80211_work_work() Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-16 12:54 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-16 13:16 ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
2012-03-16 13:38 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-16 12:02 ` [RFC 3/3] mac80211: synchronize channel switch and scan Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-16 12:52 ` [RFC 1/3] mac80211: do not scan and monitor connection in parallel Johannes Berg
2012-03-16 13:13 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-16 13:21 ` Johannes Berg
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