On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 14:02 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote: > I recall that at least there's one case where using these helpers is > impossible: drv_config() which can be called while mac80211 is already > holding iflist_mtx. ath10k needs to iterate over vifs and issue > blocking commands sometimes so it can't use atomic/rcu versions > either.
If you wanted to use it, I wouldn't be averse to adding a locked version that can only be used inside a few of such callbacks. With appropriate lockdep warnings that would be safe enough, I think. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
