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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-07-15 00:15:08 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-07-15 00:15:08 -0700 |
| commit | b9e40857682ecfc5bcd0356a23ff409883ffb982 (patch) | |
| tree | d241fd289bed6d16f36f6d26815c1e78e212c89a /net/mac80211/mlme.c | |
| parent | e308a5d806c852f56590ffdd3834d0df0cbed8d7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b9e40857682ecfc5bcd0356a23ff409883ffb982.tar.gz | |
netdev: Do not use TX lock to protect address lists.
Now that we have a specific lock to protect the network device unicast and multicast lists, remove extraneous grabs of the TX lock in cases where the code only needs address list protection. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/mlme.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/mlme.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index 1232ba25e1e9..d7c371e36bf0 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -4064,16 +4064,14 @@ static int ieee80211_sta_start_scan(struct net_device *dev, local->scan_band = IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ; local->scan_dev = dev; - netif_tx_lock_bh(local->mdev); - netif_addr_lock(local->mdev); + netif_addr_lock_bh(local->mdev); local->filter_flags |= FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC; local->ops->configure_filter(local_to_hw(local), FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC, &local->filter_flags, local->mdev->mc_count, local->mdev->mc_list); - netif_addr_unlock(local->mdev); - netif_tx_unlock_bh(local->mdev); + netif_addr_unlock_bh(local->mdev); /* TODO: start scan as soon as all nullfunc frames are ACKed */ queue_delayed_work(local->hw.workqueue, &local->scan_work, |