Re: [PATCH 1/3] mac80211: Include sequence number in IBSS and Mesh beacons

[Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 17:36 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> 
> > True, I have to double check it, but the legacy drivers use per-queue locking as well.
> > And it would still be possible for the driver to send out frames with a higher
> > sequence number before one with a lower number.
> 
> The legacy drivers hopefully also implement proper sequence numbering
> per TID. I'll send another mail on the topic.

Heh, I seriously doubt that. As far as I know it is working using a single
counter in the main interface structure. Just the same way it currently
works in mac80211 (which isn't surprising, since I based the mac80211 patch
on the legacy driver implementation).

> > But I'll put out a request on the rt2400-devel list to see if anybody is interested
> > in looking into this issue for rt2400pci and rt2500pci. In if there is nobody, I'll
> > disable adhoc and master mode for those drivers to prevent problems.
> 
> Heh, that works. Just disable it and tell folks who want it to work to
> fix it :)

Well I am putting out an in advance notice first. ;)

Ivo