Re: [RFC] mac80211: remove ieee80211_notify_mac

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:59:59PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 19:34 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> 
> > There actually complains about slow reconnection, 
> 
> Ok I guess then I haven't seen them for some reason.
> 
> Either way, here's a quick summary:
>  * locking issues with the callback are fixed by removing it
>  * callback is incorrect when you're only suspended for a very short
>    time
>  * callback is incorrect when you're in non-STA modes
>  * suspend/resume cannot be implemented well through this callback, at
>    least not the way it is written now and needs to do a whole lot more
>  * there's no "slow" issue when you actually resume in a different
>    location where the AP is not around any more
>  * there should be no "slow" issue when the AP properly deauthenticates
>    when receiving data frames
> 
> This was an RFC. I'm convinced it should go in, but I don't make those
> decisions anyway. I've outlined my reasons for it.

I agree that it seems to solve problems, and there is little benefit
tokeeping the callback in question.  I'm going to send this upstream.

John
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