From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mac80211: Improve error handling for off-channel operation
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:44:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360187077.7910.78.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360162873-17240-4-git-send-email-seth.forshee@canonical.com>
On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 09:01 -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> Errors in sending the nullfunc frame to set powersave at the AP for
> off-channel operation can lead to high packet loss. Add error handling
> to fail going off-channel when this happens, and return an error to
> userspace.
With the flushes in place, have you ever seen this fail? This and patch
ones seems like a lot of churn for only half of what you'd want -- what
you really want is to know if the AP ACKed the frame...
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-06 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-06 15:01 [PATCH 0/4] Improve queue handling for off-channel operation Seth Forshee
2013-02-06 15:01 ` [PATCH 1/4] mac80211: Return a status for tx operations Seth Forshee
2013-02-06 15:01 ` [PATCH 2/4] mac80211: Fix tx queue handling during scans Seth Forshee
2013-02-06 15:01 ` [PATCH 3/4] mac80211: Improve error handling for off-channel operation Seth Forshee
2013-02-06 21:44 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-02-06 22:05 ` Seth Forshee
2013-02-06 22:10 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-06 22:20 ` Seth Forshee
2013-02-06 22:26 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-06 22:30 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-07 17:54 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] mac80211: Fix tx queue handling during scans Seth Forshee
2013-02-07 17:54 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] mac80211: Add flushes before going off-channel Seth Forshee
2013-02-08 9:03 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] mac80211: Fix tx queue handling during scans Johannes Berg
2013-02-08 17:11 ` Seth Forshee
2013-02-08 17:17 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-08 18:10 ` Seth Forshee
2013-02-08 19:05 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-08 20:46 ` Seth Forshee
2013-02-08 20:53 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-11 17:18 ` Seth Forshee
2013-02-11 17:21 ` [PATCH v4 " Seth Forshee
2013-02-11 17:21 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] mac80211: Add flushes before going off-channel Seth Forshee
2013-02-11 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] mac80211: Fix tx queue handling during scans Johannes Berg
2013-02-11 21:50 ` Seth Forshee
2013-02-06 15:01 ` [PATCH 4/4] mac80211: Add flushes before going off-channel Seth Forshee
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