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Re: [RFC] mac80211: avoid rearming BA session timers unnecessarily

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On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 04:08 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> If mac80211 tears down the BA sessions with del_timer_sync()
>> technically mod_timer() can still rearm them. If mac80211
>> tears the BA sessions down we don't want to rearm the timers
>> at a later time so avoid this possibility.
>
> Hmm, you may be onto something, but I'm not sure I want to apply this.
> You don't seem to actually understand what you're doing -- two of the
> three changes you're making don't really seem to be needed and the third
> one should probably be fixed differently?

If I get to review it further to the point I don't disappoint, sure,
otherwise at least you now know of my suspicions.

  Luis
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