Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC 1/2] ath9k: Fix up hardware mode and beacons with multiple vifs.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 01/14/2011 05:41 PM, Björn Smedman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Felix Fietkau<nbd@openwrt.org>  wrote:
>> Do we really need all those counters? Wouldn't it be better to iterate over
>> active interfaces instead?
>
> I think iterating over active interfaces is better, especially if we
> set up more fine-graned ah->  variables that make sense in themselves
> for stuff like power save and tsf sync. But that's just my two cents.
>
> As an example of something that may be more or less impossible to do
> without iteration consider multiple vifs with different beacon
> intervals. This could be handled by computing a greatest common
> devisor of all beacon intervals and using this for SWBA.

We already iterate when setting the bssid mask.  I could have that
method calculate the vif counts with little extra cost.  I want to avoid any more
linear iterations over the interface list if possible, so hopefully
I can re-use that one iteration and not add more...

Thanks,
Ben

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