On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 17:46 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> We change regulatory code to be protected by its own regulatory
> spinlock and alleviate cfg80211_mutex to only be used to protect
> cfg80211_rdev_list, the registered device list.
> 
> By doing this we will be able to work on regulatory core components
> without having to have hog up the cfg80211_mutex. An example here is
> we no longer need to use the cfg80211_mutex during the country IE
> regulatory hint; by doing so we end up curing this new lockdep warning:

This is ok with me, but be sure that it changes the API between drivers
and cfg80211 -- the reg notifier can no longer sleep now.

johannes