netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/4] nl80211 cleanups

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Message-ID: <1286220787.3620.58.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:33:07 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	John Linville <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] nl80211 cleanups

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:14 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> This patchset adds some new hooks to generic
> netlink and then goes on to use them to really
> optimise a lot of locking code in nl80211.
> 
> It not only shrinks the code in nl80211 by     
> almost 5K .text, but also greatly reduces the
> likelihood of future errors.

And by that, I mean locking errors.

johannes

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