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Re: [PATCH 3.10] ath9k: prevent aggregation session deadlocks

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Felix Fietkau wrote:
> Waiting for all subframes of an existing aggregation session to drain
> before allowing mac80211 to start a new one is fragile and deadlocks
> caused by this behavior have been observed.
> 
> Since mac80211 has proper synchronization for aggregation session
> start/stop handling, a better approach to session handling is to simply
> allow mac80211 to start a new session at any time. This requires
> changing the code to discard any packets outside of the BlockAck window
> in the A-MPDU software retry code.
> 
> This patch implements the above and also simplifies the code.

John,

Can you please drop my patch, "ath9k: Fix TID locking" since it is not necessary
after this one ?

The rest of the pending patches have been rebased and are here:
http://msujith.org/patches/wl/May-20-2013/

Yell at me if you want them to be resent.

Sujith
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