On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Luca Coelho <luca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 17:34 +0300, Eliad Peller wrote: >> From: Igal Chernobelsky <igalc@xxxxxx> >> >> Send EAPOL frames with voice priority by setting TX_HW_ATTR_EAPOL_FRAME >> new bit in tx attribute. Sending EAPOL with voice priority fixes >> re-key timeout during heavy traffic issue. >> >> Signed-off-by: Igal Chernobelsky <igalc@xxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- > > This seems to be the same problem that Ben had and debugged by himself > [1]. Fixing this in hostapd/wpa_supplicant seems more appropriate? > > This patch seems to take an advantage of some sort of hack in the > firmware that will change the priority by itself when the > TX_HW_ATTR_EAPOL_GRAME bit is set. If we have a good reason to use this > patch, we need to take care of the firmware version as well. This > probably doesn't work with the latest published firmware. > > [1] http://mid.gmane.org/522E18E5.1020503@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I believe he only fixed one mode (AP - hostapd) but not the other (GO - wpa_supplicant). Anyway that's what we tested at the time. Anyway marking it as this level doesn't do any harm. You're right about the FW version though - it should be upstreamed first. Arik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
