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cfg80211: update comment for locking

PATCH Applied John W. Linville 2 participants 2 messages Apr 24, 2007 1 message not in the archive

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PATCH 1/1 cfg80211: update comment for locking

This patch adds a comment that was part of my rtnl locking patch for cfg80211 but which I forgot for the merge.

Signed-off-by Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by John W. Linville <[email protected]>
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 include/net/cfg80211.h |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
include/net/cfg80211.h +4 -0
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ struct wiphy;
  * All callbacks except where otherwise noted should return 0
  * on success or a negative error code.
  *
+ * All operations are currently invoked under rtnl for consistency with the
+ * wireless extensions but this is subject to reevaluation as soon as this
+ * code is used more widely and we have a first user without wext.
+ *
  * @add_virtual_intf: create a new virtual interface with the given name
  *
  * @del_virtual_intf: remove the virtual interface determined by ifindex.
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