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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>2009-02-21 00:04:21 -0500
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-02-27 14:52:55 -0500
commita1794390f1afc3631ac056e0f1677b7ab6f7ee74 (patch)
tree0c5ff752ba69c6b002369e340e931ce5ef9df0d3 /net/wireless/core.h
parent85fd129a721e6e892dbaaf05203baf819730f699 (diff)
cfg80211: rename cfg80211_drv_mutex to cfg80211_mutex
cfg80211_drv_mutex is protecting more than the driver list, this renames it and documents what its currently supposed to protect. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/core.h')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/core.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/core.h b/net/wireless/core.h
index 4f2e0fe38ce3..f3ab00cbf766 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.h
+++ b/net/wireless/core.h
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ bool wiphy_idx_valid(int wiphy_idx)
70 return (wiphy_idx >= 0); 70 return (wiphy_idx >= 0);
71} 71}
72 72
73extern struct mutex cfg80211_drv_mutex; 73extern struct mutex cfg80211_mutex;
74extern struct list_head cfg80211_drv_list; 74extern struct list_head cfg80211_drv_list;
75 75
76struct cfg80211_internal_bss { 76struct cfg80211_internal_bss {
@@ -89,13 +89,13 @@ struct cfg80211_internal_bss {
89 * the driver's mutex! 89 * the driver's mutex!
90 * 90 *
91 * This means that you need to call cfg80211_put_dev() 91 * This means that you need to call cfg80211_put_dev()
92 * before being allowed to acquire &cfg80211_drv_mutex! 92 * before being allowed to acquire &cfg80211_mutex!
93 * 93 *
94 * This is necessary because we need to lock the global 94 * This is necessary because we need to lock the global
95 * mutex to get an item off the list safely, and then 95 * mutex to get an item off the list safely, and then
96 * we lock the drv mutex so it doesn't go away under us. 96 * we lock the drv mutex so it doesn't go away under us.
97 * 97 *
98 * We don't want to keep cfg80211_drv_mutex locked 98 * We don't want to keep cfg80211_mutex locked
99 * for all the time in order to allow requests on 99 * for all the time in order to allow requests on
100 * other interfaces to go through at the same time. 100 * other interfaces to go through at the same time.
101 * 101 *