Re: [PATCH] softmac: Fixed handling of deassociation from AP

On Thursday 07 December 2006 01:36, Larry Finger wrote:

it seems to 
me that the mutex protects only the association data; whereas the spinlock protects more data, but 
does include the association data.

Nope.

The same way you could argue that the BKL should be taken here,
as it's "the global kernel lock which protects everything".
But it's simply not true and won't protect anything. ;)

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Greetings Michael.