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

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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


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