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On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 16:52 +0100, Sven Eckelmann wrote:

> > I've manipulated hostapd to test this, by having it change its
> > advertised bandwidth roughly ever 150ms. At the same time, I'm
> > running a flood ping between the client and the AP, which causes
> > this race of update vs. get_rate/status to easily happen on the
> > client. With this change, the system survives this test.

> I will ask if it is possible to test this patch in an affected network. But I 
> am quite sure that this will not be possible before next week. And your test 
> already sounds quite nice.

Note that I tested with iwlwifi, not with minstrel. However, I'm pretty
sure it's the same problem.

johannes

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