From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
Stefano Brivio <st3@riseup.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] softmac: remove netif_tx_disable when scanning
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:05:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45691273.9090803@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4568DCEB.mailLLK1Z24PM@lwfinger.net>
Larry Finger wrote:
> In the scan section of ieee80211softmac, network transmits are disabled.
> Clearly, this does not make any sense as transmit is necessary for active
> scanning, and transmits are not used when passive scanning.
Probe request frames are generated by softmac and do not go through the
TX queue. Disabling the TX queue has no effect on that.
Surely disabling the queue actually makes sense, in order to avoid
frames designated for the "current session" being transmitted on
different channels during scanning?
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-26 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-26 0:16 [PATCH] softmac: remove netif_tx_disable when scanning Larry Finger
2006-11-26 4:05 ` Daniel Drake [this message]
2006-11-26 10:03 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-26 12:12 ` Michael Buesch
[not found] ` <200611261312.20442.mb-fseUSCV1ubazQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2006-11-26 13:05 ` Larry Finger
[not found] ` <4569912C.1000506-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2006-11-26 13:06 ` Michael Buesch
[not found] ` <1164535408.21459.3.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2006-11-26 16:37 ` Daniel Drake
2006-11-26 16:51 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1164559882.22909.5.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2006-11-26 18:25 ` Daniel Drake
2006-11-26 18:40 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1164566436.22909.26.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2006-11-26 19:03 ` Larry Finger
2006-11-27 4:13 ` Daniel Drake
2006-11-27 15:49 ` Michael Buesch
[not found] ` <45691273.9090803-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2006-11-26 10:07 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-26 12:25 ` Michael Buesch
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