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On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 17:47 -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:

> Johannes: I have a couple of comments/questions for you related to these
> patches.
> 
> First, in the patches I've added an offchan_tx_ok argument to the tx
> operations, but this seems a little awkward to me since it has to be
> propogated down through a fairly deep call stack. The alternative idea
> that occurred to me is to use a tx control flag, but that seems to be
> pretty crowded. Any thoughts?

Maybe you can bypass by using a flag in struct ieee80211_tx_data, so
only the first few functions in the call chain need the argument?
Otherwise, I guess adding a flag should be OK. I know it's crowded, but
if we really run out I guess we could move all the internal flags etc.
wholesale ...

> Second, I attempted to test these patches with iwlwifi (Centrino
> Advanced-N 6235) to verify that I didn't break anything for drivers with
> hw scanning. My standard test for this involves running iperf while
> triggering nearly continuous scans, but I'm seeing lots of problems
> running a tcp iperf test even with unpatched 3.8-rc4. iperf with udp
> does fine in either direction. I haven't had time to do any kind of
> debugging yet, but I thought you'd want to know.

Hm, ok, thanks.

johannes

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