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cfg80211: properly name driver locking

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Currently we call that cfg80211_put_dev(), but that is
misleading. With the new convention of using 'rdev' for
registered_device variables, also call that function
cfg80211_unlock_rdev().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg
2009-07-07 03:56:09 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent c1e6fb1aad
commit 4d0c8aead3
4 changed files with 45 additions and 49 deletions
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net/wireless/core.h
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@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ __cfg80211_drv_from_info(struct genl_info *info);
* If successful, it returns non-NULL and also locks
* the driver's mutex!
*
* This means that you need to call cfg80211_put_dev()
* This means that you need to call cfg80211_unlock_rdev()
* before being allowed to acquire &cfg80211_mutex!
*
* This is necessary because we need to lock the global
@@ -170,7 +170,11 @@ struct wiphy *wiphy_idx_to_wiphy(int wiphy_idx);
extern struct cfg80211_registered_device *
cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex(int ifindex);
extern void cfg80211_put_dev(struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv);
static inline void cfg80211_unlock_rdev(struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv)
{
BUG_ON(IS_ERR(drv) || !drv);
mutex_unlock(&drv->mtx);
}
/* free object */
extern void cfg80211_dev_free(struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv);