From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: orinoco driver causes *lots* of lockdep spew Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:59:58 -0400 Message-ID: <20060803185958.GC11577@redhat.com> References: <1154607380.2965.25.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060803141153.GB20405@infradead.org> <20060803185800.GB12062@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Herbert Xu , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, linville@tuxdriver.com Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:21121 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964866AbWHCTCw (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:02:52 -0400 To: Jean Tourrilhes Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060803185800.GB12062@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:58:00AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:11:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:54:41PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > > > > this is another one of those nasty buggers; > > > > > > Good catch. It's really time that we fix this properly rather than > > > adding more kludges to the core code. > > > > > > Dave, once this goes in you can revert the previous netlink workaround > > > that added the _bh suffix. > > > > > > [WIRELESS]: Send wireless netlink events with a clean slate > > > > Could we please just get rid of the wireless extensions over netlink code > > again? It doesn't help to solve anything and just creates a bigger mess > > to untangle when switching to a fully fledged wireless stack. > > That's not going to happen any time soon, NetworkManager > depends on Wireless Events, as well as many other apps. And there is > not many mechanisms you can use in the kernel to generate events from > driver to userspace. It seemed to cope pretty well before we had this ? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk