From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Helmut Schaa Subject: Re: [Ipw2100-devel] ipw2100: race between isr_indicate_associated and rx path Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:36:42 +0100 Message-ID: <200902240836.42948.helmut.schaa@gmail.com> References: <200901211734.48625.helmut.schaa@gmail.com> <200902231138.58067.helmut.schaa@gmail.com> <20090223180801.GA29290@jm.kir.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Zhu, Yi" , "ipw2100-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" To: Jouni Malinen Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f167.google.com ([209.85.220.167]:51400 "EHLO mail-fx0-f167.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751184AbZBXIkG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:40:06 -0500 Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so2572898fxm.13 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:40:03 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090223180801.GA29290@jm.kir.nu> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am Montag, 23. Februar 2009 schrieb Jouni Malinen: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:38:57AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote: > > > Jouni, would you accept a patch for wpa_supplicant that adds some retries > > to l2_packet_send when the network stack returns an error? [...] > I did not fully understand the details of the issue and why noop_qdisc > is used at the point when a frame is delivered to user space, so I may > be missing some details here. Anyway, I would highly prefer the kernel > to avoid delivering EAPOL frames into user space if it is not ready to > transmit a response to them. Sounds reasonable to me. Helmut