From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] nl80211 cleanups Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:33:07 +0200 Message-ID: <1286220787.3620.58.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> References: <20101004191402.183055479@sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: John Linville Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101004191402.183055479-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:14 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > This patchset adds some new hooks to generic > netlink and then goes on to use them to really > optimise a lot of locking code in nl80211. > > It not only shrinks the code in nl80211 by > almost 5K .text, but also greatly reduces the > likelihood of future errors. And by that, I mean locking errors. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html