mac802154: remove mib lock
This patch removes the mib lock. The new locking mechanism is to protect the mib values with the rtnl lock. Note that this isn't always necessary if we have an interface up the most mib values are readonly (e.g. address settings). With this behaviour we can remove locking in hotpath like frame parsing completely. It depends on context if we need to hold the rtnl lock or not, this makes the callbacks of ieee802154_mlme_ops unnecessary because these callbacks hols always the locks. Signed-off-by:Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Stefan Schmidt <stefan@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by:
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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