linux-kernel - Re: orinoco driver causes *lots* of lockdep spew

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Message-ID: <20060803141153.GB20405@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:11:53 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, davej@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, linville@...driver.com, jt@....hp.com
Subject: Re: orinoco driver causes *lots* of lockdep spew

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:54:41PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> 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.

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