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From: Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>
To: "Björn Smedman" <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC 1/2] ath9k: Fix up hardware mode and beacons with multiple vifs.
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:55:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295052936.2253.5.camel@mythtv.ewol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=WTUiy1DYNhE12_KZp8QFUrWebY2Cpzud5P0b3@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 00:19 +0100, Björn Smedman wrote:

> Thank you for your efforts to get multi-vifs working better.
> 
> This is another comment that is a little out of place but when I see
> the identifier beacon_interval in this context I cannot help bringing
> up per-vif settings as a related problem: If I read the code (or
> rather the lack of code) correctly the beacon interval of the last (or
> first?) beaconing vif added will be used to set up beacon tx, whereas
> the actual beacon contents will reflect the beacon intervals
> configured for individual vifs which may all be different... The same
> goes for e.g. tx queue configuration, no?
> 
> It feels like we need a general multi-vif cleanup here but it's too
> big for me unfortunately.
> 
> /Björn
> _______________________________________________

For instance, an ap vif has a ~100ms interval and a mesh vif has a
~1000ms interval. I don't see how to avoid a per vif interval.

Steve


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-15  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-14 17:27 [RFC 1/2] ath9k: Fix up hardware mode and beacons with multiple vifs greearb
2011-01-14 17:27 ` [RFC 2/2] ath9k: Add 'misc' file to debugfs, fix queue indexes greearb
2011-01-14 18:05 ` [ath9k-devel] [RFC 1/2] ath9k: Fix up hardware mode and beacons with multiple vifs Felix Fietkau
2011-01-14 18:16   ` Ben Greear
2011-01-15  1:41   ` Björn Smedman
2011-01-15 14:54     ` Ben Greear
2011-01-14 18:58 ` Steve Brown
2011-01-14 19:12   ` Ben Greear
2011-01-14 23:19 ` Björn Smedman
2011-01-14 23:24   ` Ben Greear
2011-01-15  0:55   ` Steve Brown [this message]
2011-01-15  1:20     ` [ath9k-devel] " Björn Smedman
2011-01-15 11:07       ` Jouni Malinen

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