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Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: fix release_reorder_timeout in scan
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On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 11:49 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> >> I don't get what we are doing with these frames today, are you saying
> >> we pegged some of these frames into the reorder buffer when starting a
> >> sw scan, or that we were dropping them?

> yeah, I was thinking about the release reorder buffer and its
> respective timeout, I thought that's what the subject of this patch
> was about.

So I got confused by your question ...

We put them into the reorder buffer, but if we get a reorder timeout
while scanning we'll drop the frames which isn't necessary.

johannes