netdev - Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:40:51 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Larry Finger <larry.finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, kune@...ne-taler.de
Subject: Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 11:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:

> You're on. BTW, I will let you be the primary tester of "[PATCH] fix softmac lockdep reports" that
> Johannes posted earlier today. I see you were CC'd. I plan on testing it with bcm43xx, but I won't
> get to it for a couple of days.

The only thing it can possibly fix is our race against some other
functions that use the global workqueue and lock the RTNL from within
the work function while we have it locked while flushing. Conversely, it
can't really break anything either.

johannes

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