Re: Add a new work-queue for destructing stations?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 12/13/2012 10:53 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 19:49 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
>>>> Well the concern there is that we expose the workqueue to the driver,
>>>> and it might even put sdata-referencing work items on it and expect them
>>>> to be flushed out before stop_interface() is called?
>
> Wait actually, that isn't a concern. The flush_workqueue() was new in
> commit b22cfcfca, before that drivers couldn't rely on it. It seems very
> unlikely that in the meantime drivers have come to rely on it and we
> didn't document this, so ... with the proposed change to sta_free_wk we
> should be fine.

We still need to cancel the other mac80211 work items though, right?

I didn't understand your proposal for the sta_free_wk changes,
but I can at least work on tracking down the mac80211 work items
if that helps...

>
> johannes
>


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