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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: allow Rx in reconfig only after removing BA sessions
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:30:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1340875844.4491.26.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+XVXfdKLeaHpLmqsXROH9VojHkB4EP-BpcFDLb8ZCtjb_XCbQ@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20120628_103758_593069_FB3D8FF9)

On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 11:37 +0300, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 21:25 +0300, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
> >> Previously, a connected STA/AP could send us some AMPDUs right after
> >> recovery, without the driver knowing anything about it.
> >
> > Huh, that description doesn't make a lot of sense? The STA/AP can send
> > us AMPDUs anyway without the driver knowing anything about it since it
> > has no idea we're restarting ...
> 
> Well the point is to drop them early in the Rx path. Should I change
> the description or you don't like the patch in general?

I don't mind the patch, I just don't quite understand it still.

The driver is receiving the AMPDUs anyway, and if it's passing them up
why do we need to drop them?

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-28  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-27 18:25 [PATCH] mac80211: allow Rx in reconfig only after removing BA sessions Arik Nemtsov
2012-06-28  8:17 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-28  8:37   ` Arik Nemtsov
2012-06-28  9:30     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-06-28  9:38       ` Arik Nemtsov
2012-06-28  9:42         ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-28 14:18           ` Arik Nemtsov

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