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From: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
        Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] qtnfmac: implement scan timeout
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On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 08:27:37PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> 
> External Email
> 
> 
> Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com> writes:
> 
> > Userspace tools may hang on scan in the case when scan completion event
> > is not returned by firmware. This patch implements the scan timeout
> > to avoid such situation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +static __always_inline void qtnf_wmac_lock(struct qtnf_wmac *mac)
> > +{
> > +     mutex_lock(&mac->mac_lock);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static __always_inline void qtnf_wmac_unlock(struct qtnf_wmac *mac)
> > +{
> > +     mutex_unlock(&mac->mac_lock);
> > +}
> 
> Why? These look pointless to me.

Could you please clarify a bit. You mean, locking/unlocking directly instead of
using inline wrappers ?