On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 23:14 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> >>> Yes, but I need to look at the one Reinette posted and fix that one,
> >>> which will probably require a different solution.
> >>
> >> Oh I didn't see that one. How different?
> >
> > I see an rtnl lock issue against scanning and the drv mutex. Doesn't
> > seem to be related to regulatory. So how would that affect a path to
> > move hints to a workqueue?
> 
> Oh you mean the rntl_lock() and drv mutex is _still_ an issue?

Well, regardless of regulatory, we now have two paths:

nl80211: cfg80211_mutex  -->  drv->mutex  -->  rtnl
wext:    rtnl  -->  cfg80211_mutex  -->  drv->mutex

which is clearly not a good plan.

Therefore, I'll probably have to implement solution (1) from what I sent
you, and invert the locking in nl80211. That would fix your the
immediate problem with regulatory as well, because that was:

rtnl  --->  (regulatory_hint) --->  cfg80211_mutex  -->  drv->mutex

johannes