On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 14:22 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote:

> You'd probably have to add quite a few mutex_lock(iflist_mtx) around
> drv_*() calls (not directly but somewhere at their call trees) to
> guarantee driver can use lock-free iterate() version (which doesn't
> exist yet). This could be tricky.

Well, I was thinking you'd only use it in some places now - but it does
seem a bit difficult to maintain.

We've not typically had to worry about using the synchronous versions
much since we mostly just need a single interface so we just pass it out
and use it there, or so.

johannes

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