Re: [PATCH 0/15] mac80211/iwlwifi (#everything): integrate IEEE802.11n support

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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Guy,

> We understand that these two issues need to be taken care of, and they
> will be. My concern is that if current patches won't be merged soon,
> we will have to pay the effort to rebase the patches again. We are
> very limited with resources dedicated to supporting the merge of
> 802.11n to wireless-dev. This mailing list taught us in the "hard way"
> in the recent months: submit often submit early... So for making Ron's
> work efficient I suggest to merge his patches and let him do the fixes
> on top of them, specially since the two fixes are not 802.11n core
> critical issues and don't break any existing working flows. Do you
> feel comfortable with this approach?

I understand your concern, however, if for some reason this doesn't
happen quickly enough we'll end up with code that is vulnerable in weird
ways. I'd have no issue with these patches if deaggregation support was
optional until we have the patchset that reworks that code. Can we do
that?

johannes

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