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Re: [RFC 2/2] mac80211: revamp interface and filter configuration

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On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 07:16 +0200, Ulrich Kunitz wrote:

> I see three options to achieve this:
> 
> 1) Use ieee80211_stop_queues() in ->configure_filter() and
>    ieee80211_wake_queues() at the end of the workqueue function.
> 
> 2) Throw away all packets until the workqueue function
>    terminates.
> 
> 3) Implement our own tx queue.
> 
> I prefer to do option (1) because it wouldn't require adding
> additional fields to our private structure beside the work_struct
> for the workqueue function, it is simple to implement and it would
> not throw away any packets. Are there any side effects that I have
> overlooked?

I think Michael says it's currently buggy if called outside of ->tx().

johannes

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