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Re: [PATCH 0/7] Improvements to software scanning

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On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 16:04 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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 ...

Ok no that was wrong ... we can't do that because many flags need to
survive queueing.

johannes

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