netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] mac80211_hwsim: radio destruction fixes

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Date:   Tue, 25 Sep 2018 09:44:02 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Martin Willi <martin@...ongswan.org>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Benjamin Beichler <benjamin.beichler@...-rostock.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mac80211_hwsim: radio destruction fixes

On Tue, 2018-09-25 at 09:41 +0200, Martin Willi wrote:
> This small series fixes two issues for cleaning up hwsim radios. The
> first one is rather easy to hit when terminating namespaces with many
> hwsim radios. The second one affects destroy-on-close users only.
> 
> Given that the use of a work-queue for deferred cleanup with namespaces
> has been and still is tricky to get right, this series switches these
> users to a synchronous cleanup in hwsim;

Cool, thanks. I wasn't really even aware of this, most our usage is with
VMs, not namespaces.

> The removal of that work-queue
> is in a dedicated commit in case we want to skip that in backports.

Yeah, also I'll probably stick that into -next only.

johannes