From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [mac80211] mac80211: Support receiving data frames on multiple vifs.
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:56:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C97BC5E.5060704@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285009828.3688.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On 09/20/2010 12:10 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 10:52 -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
>> From: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> When using multiple STA interfaces on the same radio, some
>> data packets need to be received on all interfaces
>> (broadcast, for instance).
>>
>> Remove special loop for data-only packets and just process all
>> packets in the big loop that previously only handled non-data
>> packets.
>
> I'd prefer keeping different for_each_*, but maybe we can make the loops
> just call a common function, say with&prev pointer or something? The
> station loop will typically be iterating over fewer things here.
While attempting this, I see something strange. It appears that
for the last interface (in the non-data loop), the
if (status->flag & RX_FLAG_MMIC_ERROR)
logic will not be run?
Is that on purpose?
Thanks,
Ben
>
> johannes
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-20 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-20 17:52 [mac80211] mac80211: Support receiving data frames on multiple vifs greearb
2010-09-20 19:10 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-20 19:56 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2010-09-21 6:32 ` Johannes Berg
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2010-09-20 21:39 greearb
2010-09-21 6:47 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-23 13:57 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-23 14:06 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-23 16:57 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-23 18:42 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-23 18:48 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-23 19:07 ` Johannes Berg
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