Re: [PATCH] wl12xx: remove warning message during IBSS Tx

[Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>]

On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 21:19 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote: 
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 23:17, Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 23:03 +0200, Shahar Lev wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> >> > Maybe you should also change that? :-)
> >>
> >> Consider it added to our collective TODO.
> >
> > Well, the fix is probably supposed to be done in mac80211, instead of
> > hiding the bug by removing the warning, isn't it?
> 
> Sometimes data is sent when the IBSS interface is not connected.
> wl12xx handles this correctly by throwing the packets. In this sense
> there's no "bug".
> All this patch does is remove warning messages that confuse the users
> (and developers).
> 
> I agree fixing mac80211 is the better thing to do, and we'll get to it
> when time permits.

Okay, not a big problem to do this in the driver.

But what I meant with "the bug" was that, if this can be avoided in
mac80211, why not do it there? Is it a a big effort to do it in
mac80211?


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Cheers,
Luca.