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Message-ID: <54A6C9E4.80009@lwfinger.net> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 10:40:04 -0600 From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> To: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>, stefano.brivio@...imi.it CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org, kvalo@...eaurora.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers:net:wireless: Add proper locking for the function, b43_op_beacon_set_tim in main.c On 01/02/2015 01:34 AM, Nicholas Krause wrote: > This adds proper locking for the function, b43_op_beacon_set_tim in main.c by using the mutex lock > in the structure pointer wl, as embedded into this pointer as a mutex in order to protect against > multiple access to the pointer wl when updating the templates for this pointer in the function, > b43_update_templates internally in the function, b43_op_beacon_set_tim. > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> Although this patch has already been rejected, I want to comment on the subject you have chosen. As you are submitting it to the maintainer of drivers/net/wireless/, there is no need to place those entities in the subject. A better subject would have been "b43: Add proper locking for b43_op_beacon_set_tim()". Larry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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