From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bcm43xx driver unstable behaviour (and linux wireless is junk btw)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:58:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159178281.13140.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159174960.4509.13.camel@ux156>
> yes. Many locking issues in d80211 to still sort out. Basically, there
> are next to no useful locks in it and most data structures are not
> protected at all.
Doh ! Scary... locking is hard ... if the stuff was written without
locking in mind in the first place, it might end up being a nightmare...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-25 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-24 2:43 bcm43xx driver unstable behaviour (and linux wireless is junk btw) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <1159065798.5924.8.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2006-09-24 3:45 ` Daniel Drake
[not found] ` <4515FF5D.4080602-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2006-09-24 6:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <1159078683.5924.16.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2006-09-24 8:05 ` Michael Buesch
[not found] ` <200609241005.02024.mb-fseUSCV1ubazQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2006-09-24 8:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-24 8:43 ` Michael Buesch
2006-09-24 8:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-24 15:34 ` Daniel Drake
2006-09-24 16:38 ` Michael Buesch
2006-09-25 9:02 ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-25 9:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-09-25 10:00 ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-24 3:50 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <1159069857.2748.5.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2006-09-24 6:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-24 16:02 ` Dan Williams
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