linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers:net:wireless: Add proper locking for the function, b43_op_beacon_set

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Date:	Mon, 05 Jan 2015 11:29:50 +0200
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:	Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
Cc:	stefano.brivio@...imi.it, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.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

Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> writes:

> 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>

Based on the discussion I have dropped this patch.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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