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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] mac80211: inform the low level driver about events in mac80211
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:17:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1427703464.26117.2.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426541017-10516-1-git-send-email-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>

On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 23:23 +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> This can be useful to know what is happening in mac80211
> from the low level driver without guessing from mac80211's
> callbacks.
> This can be used for error detection (too many deauths)
> and trigger recovery / debug flows based on that
> information.
> Another possibility is to change parameters that are not
> controlled by mac80211 based on this. For example, after
> a few association failures, a device may change its BT
> Coexist scheme or modify the time sharing between its
> vifs.
> 
> I use these patches in iwlwifi for debug only (currently).
> This allows me to collect firmware debug data upon
> authentication failure / deauth Rx etc...

Applied all four.

johannes


      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-30  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-16 21:23 [PATCH 0/4] mac80211: inform the low level driver about events in mac80211 Emmanuel Grumbach
2015-03-16 21:23 ` [PATCH 1/4] mac80211: convert rssi_callback() to event_callback() Emmanuel Grumbach
2015-03-16 21:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] mac80211: notify the driver about authentication status Emmanuel Grumbach
2015-03-16 21:23 ` [PATCH 3/4] mac80211: notify the driver about association status Emmanuel Grumbach
2015-03-16 21:23 ` [PATCH 4/4] mac80211: notify the driver about deauth Emmanuel Grumbach
2015-03-30  8:17 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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