From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.31]:35204 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750872AbZBMHON (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:14:13 -0500 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 5so581791ywh.1 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:14:12 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <43e72e890902122309q61036a23k2efeb14fe3a6e814@mail.gmail.com> References: <1234503363-11014-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1234503363-11014-2-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1234503363-11014-3-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1234503363-11014-4-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1234503363-11014-5-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1234503363-11014-6-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1234503363-11014-7-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1234508187.1327.19.camel@johannes.local> <43e72e890902122309q61036a23k2efeb14fe3a6e814@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:14:12 -0800 Message-ID: <43e72e890902122314m2966471dm3a9485a91e8e927@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20090213_081416_593303_89D1EB18) Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] cfg80211: move regulatory hints to workqueue From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Johannes Berg Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Johannes Berg > wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:36 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>> Driver and userspace regulatory hints are now processed in >>> a workqueue. This should fix some lockdep warnings which complain >>> about possible circular locking dependencies such as: >> >> Yes, but I need to look at the one Reinette posted and fix that one, >> which will probably require a different solution. > > Oh I didn't see that one. How different? I see an rtnl lock issue against scanning and the drv mutex. Doesn't seem to be related to regulatory. So how would that affect a path to move hints to a workqueue? Luis