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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Restore rx.fc before every invocation of ieee80211_invoke_rx_handlers

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> >> This patch fixes a problem with rx handling on multiple interfaces.  
> >>  Especially
> >> when using hardware-scanning and a wireless driver (i.e. iwlwifi) which is
> >> able to receive data while scanning.
> >
> > Can you explain how you even got multiple interfaces with iwlwifi? The
> > patch looks (superficially) correct, but I'm a bit confused.
> 
> I was only referring to wmaster0 and wlan0 as two interfaces. While a scan
> is in progress the master interface (wmaster0) processes all frames related
> to scanning and it happened to me that data-frames got dropped on wmaster0
> (which is obviously correct) and due to the frame control being modified
> wlan0 was not able to process the frame correctly anymore.

Ah, that must be because of the stuff Zhu Yi did wrt. hw scanning. Could
you take a look too please? The patch looks pretty much ok to me and I
think it'd be required with say VLAN interfaces as well.

johannes

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