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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: add vif to flush call

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On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 19:15 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 03/27/14 10:30, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> > From: Emmanuel Grumbach<emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This will allow the low level driver to make decision based
> > on the vif such as queues etc...
> > Since the vif might be NULL, we can't add it to the tracing
> > functions.
> 
> Although this argument sound fair my rule about interfaces is that a 
> change should be needed, ie. a low-level driver that needs the info, 
> instead of hypothetical use. You have one up your sleeve ? ;-)

Yeah, we do have a change for iwlmvm in the pipeline - the reason we
need the vif rather than just the queue bitmap there is that there are
(aggregation) queues that are hidden from mac80211's view.

johannes

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