[PATCH v2 2/7] ath10k: implement chanctx API
Johannes Berg
johannes at sipsolutions.net
Fri Jan 30 05:31:10 PST 2015
On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 14:22 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote:
> You'd probably have to add quite a few mutex_lock(iflist_mtx) around
> drv_*() calls (not directly but somewhere at their call trees) to
> guarantee driver can use lock-free iterate() version (which doesn't
> exist yet). This could be tricky.
Well, I was thinking you'd only use it in some places now - but it does
seem a bit difficult to maintain.
We've not typically had to worry about using the synchronous versions
much since we mostly just need a single interface so we just pass it out
and use it there, or so.
johannes
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