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Re: [PATCH v2] d80211: Add software sequence support

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On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 20:40 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:

> Per-MAC address counters would work but it's another overhead we need
> to add (allocate a new reference-counted structure, put a pointer to it
> into sdata, correctly deal with it when MAC address changes).

Yup, I agree. Put it into drivers :P

> I think we can live with the counter in sdata. It's not perfect but it
> should work for all useful cases. The only situation where it won't
> work I have been able to imagine is the case I described (STA and WDS
> with the same address) and this particular setup is currently being
> denied by d80211 (and it's not allowed by 802.11, btw).
> 
> If we consider this as a problem later, we can always change to per-MAC
> address counters or something as it's completely internal to the stack
> and no driver changes would be required.

Ok. I'm fine with putting it into the stack. I'll take Michael by the
word though that he'll do dynamically registered tx handlers later ;)

johannes

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