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Re: [PATCH *** REVIEW ME ***] mac80211: let flush() drop packets when possible [BUGFIX]

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On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 15:42 +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> When roaming / suspending, it makes no sense to wait until
> the transmit queues of the device are empty. In extreme
> condition they can be starved (VO saturating the air), but
> even in regular cases, it is pointless to delay the roaming
> because the low level driver is trying to send packets to
> an AP which is far away. We'd rather drop these packets and
> let TCP retransmit if needed. This will allow to speed up
> the roaming.
> 
> For suspend, the explanation is even more trivial.

Applied.

johannes

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