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Re: [PATCH v5] mac80211: implement multi-vif in-place reservations

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On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 14:13 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 15:08 +0300, Luca Coelho wrote:
> 
> > I was thinking about the case where you you need to involve 3 contexts.
> > Let's say you have 2 vifs in the same context and after the switch you
> > need to split them into 2 new ones (for instance, if there is some
> > incompatibility in the new chandefs).
> > 
> > With the generic transactions you could do:
> >  - new chanctx2
> >  - new chanctx3
> >  - switch vif1 chanctx1->chanctx2
> >  - switch vif2 chanctx1->chanctx3
> >  - del chanctx1
> 
> This isn't an interesting case, because it means you have a spare, so
> you might as well do
> 
>  new chanctx3
>  switch vif2 chanctx1->chanctx3
>  switch_transaction(chanctx1, chanctx2, vif1)

Couldn't this potentially break the combinations temporarily again?

--
Luca.

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