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From: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: remove WARN_ON() from ieee80211_hw_config
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:40:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1228430425.28477.80.camel@rc-desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228429761.5692.54.camel@johannes.berg>

On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 14:29 -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 14:24 -0800, reinette chatre wrote:
> 
> > > I suppose the probability of the beacon interval changing is rather low,
> > > but should we propagate the error in that case rather than just using
> > > -EINVAL?
> > 
> > I do not understand. By returning -EINVAL the error is propagated up to
> > nl80211 from where the call came.
> 
> Ah, but the error code is lost, the driver might have returned -EBUSY or
> something. I'm not sure we want to pass that up, it might be better not
> to, not sure.

I see. I am not familiar with the upper layers, but giving them insight
into the failure may be useful. I'll change patch to do this.

Thank you very much

Reinette


      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-04 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-04 21:25 [RFC] mac80211: remove WARN_ON() from ieee80211_hw_config Reinette Chatre
2008-12-04 21:57 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-04 22:24   ` reinette chatre
2008-12-04 22:29     ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-04 22:40       ` reinette chatre [this message]

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