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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>,
	Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"rmanohar@codeaurora.org" <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Update last_ack status for all except probing frames
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:25:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1510565141.30497.6.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96799d352b7347a8a9092bb37f1cd8d9@NALASEXR01H.na.qualcomm.com>

On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 20:20 +0000, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> > > For steering an idle station from one BSS to another, the steering
> > > application has to know the actual station idle period. But if the
> > > idle period is cleared by ap_max_inactivity, the steering application
> > > cannot steer the station even though the station is not sending or receiving
> > 
> > any data or mgmt. frame.

I guess you want something else. Why even consider a station that's
sending mgmt frames as non-idle?

You can just use the data TX/RX counters to figure out if the station
has been idle.

You've not convinced me that changing the current logic here makes any
sense.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-13  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-31  0:29 [PATCH] mac80211: Update last_ack status for all except probing frames Rajkumar Manoharan
2017-11-01  2:31 ` Igor Mitsyanko
2017-11-02 18:06   ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2017-11-06 10:29 ` Johannes Berg
2017-11-06 17:44   ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2017-11-06 19:50     ` Igor Mitsyanko
2017-11-06 20:20       ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2017-11-13  9:25         ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2017-11-15 19:21           ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2017-11-20 16:09             ` Johannes Berg

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