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From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom•com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver•com>
Cc: "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@redhat•com>,
	"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions•net>,
	"Brett Rudley" <brudley@broadcom•com>,
	"Roland Vossen" <rvossen@broadcom•com>,
	linux-wireless@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	"Seth Forshee" <seth.forshee@canonical•com>
Subject: Re: assert_cfg80211_lock warning with Linux v3.5-8833-g2d53492
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 17:51:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5019506C.6020707@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50194D7A.6060400@broadcom.com>

On 08/01/2012 05:38 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> brcmsmac needs to hold cfg80211_mutex before calling freq_reg_info...
>> > 
>> > It looks like those calls were added in mid-June.
>> > 
> I think mid-june sounds about right. We never observed the warning when
> changes to use regulatory infrastructure were tested/reviewed. Should
> this precondition be mentioned in cfg80211.h?
> 
> Gr. AvS

Diving in further it seems brcmsmac can not grab the cfg80211_mutex. So
another solution is needed.

Gr. AvS

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-01 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-01 13:12 assert_cfg80211_lock warning with Linux v3.5-8833-g2d53492 Josh Boyer
     [not found] ` <20120801131232.GA1785-8k7Gwy46GHkf7BdofF/totBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-01 14:18   ` John W. Linville
     [not found]     ` <20120801141810.GB27433-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-01 15:38       ` Arend van Spriel
2012-08-01 15:51         ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2012-08-01 15:52           ` John W. Linville
     [not found]             ` <20120801155252.GE27433-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-01 16:40               ` Arend van Spriel
     [not found]           ` <5019506C.6020707-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-01 15:53             ` Johannes Berg
2012-08-01 16:19               ` Seth Forshee
2012-08-01 17:14                 ` Johannes Berg
2012-08-01 17:56                   ` Seth Forshee
     [not found]               ` <1343836438.4638.5.camel-8upI4CBIZJIJvtFkdXX2HixXY32XiHfO@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-01 17:24                 ` Arend van Spriel
     [not found]                   ` <50196660.8090001-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-01 19:28                     ` Arend van Spriel

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