On 30 January 2015 at 14:31, Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I'm not sure if you refer to iwlwifi or mac80211 now? If it's the latter: even if you have an ops with, e.g. vif pointer, driver may still need to iterate over interfaces in order to propagate some side-effect changes or aggregate some values/recalculate. Michał -- 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
