Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] mac80211 dissasociation

Tomas Winkler
2008-09-08T08:46:43Z

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 02:14 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>
>> Shouldn't carrier_off(stada->dev) stop the queue? I haven't seen this
>> before.
>
> The other question is whether we should be doing netif_carrier_off() at
> all since that throws away frames from the queue and attaches a noop
> qdisc. When we're roaming quickly between two APs, we don't necessarily
> want that, but we don't actually know whether or not we'll be able to
> get back to an AP quickly when we disassociate for whatever reason.
>
we should stop the wlan0 not the master device. Only data frames
should be stopped.
Tomas