wireless : use a dedicated workqueue for cfg80211.
authorAlban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com>
Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:13:00 +0000 (15:13 +0100)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:05:00 +0000 (15:05 -0500)
commite60d7443e00a72a2c056950cdaab79c7b077f3d4
tree0d2376434a0f44ac2b30bba0af3cdcb8e5421c90
parentece1e3c61e59ba184150e5aff57bbc6355613e3e
wireless : use a dedicated workqueue for cfg80211.

This patch moves the works cleanup, scan and events to a cfg80211
dedicated workqueue.

Platform driver like eeepc-laptop ought to use works to rfkill (as
new rfkill does lock in rfkill_unregister and the platform driver is
called from rfkill_switch_all which also lock the same mutex).
This raise a new issue in itself that the work scheduled by the platform
driver to the global worqueue calls wiphy_unregister which flush_work
scan and event works (which thus flush works on the global workqueue inside
a work on the global workqueue) and also put on hold the  wdev_cleanup_work
 (which prevents the dev_put on netdev thus indefinite Usage count error on
wifi device).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Alban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/wireless/core.c
net/wireless/core.h
net/wireless/ibss.c
net/wireless/scan.c
net/wireless/sme.c