mac80211: Improve mpath state locking
No need to take the mpath state lock when an mpath is removed.
Also, no need checking the lock when reading mpath flags.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.h b/net/mac80211/mesh.h
index 57a2ad0..7118e8e 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.h
@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@
* retry
* @discovery_retries: number of discovery retries
* @flags: mesh path flags, as specified on &enum mesh_path_flags
- * @state_lock: mesh path state lock
+ * @state_lock: mesh path state lock used to protect changes to the
+ * mpath itself. No need to take this lock when adding or removing
+ * an mpath to a hash bucket on a path table.
* @is_gate: the destination station of this path is a mesh gate
*
*