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Re: [PATCH RFC v2] mac80211: no BSS changes to driver from beacons processed during scanning

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On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 16:56 -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> There is no need to send BSS changes to driver from beacons processed
> during scanning. We are more interested in beacons from an AP with which
> we are associated - these will still be used to send updates to driver as
> the beacons are received without scanning.
> 
> This change·removes the requirement that bss_info_changed needs to be atomic.
> The beacons received during scanning are processed from a tasklet, but if we
> do not call bss_info_changed for these beacons there is no need for it to be
> atomic. This function (bss_info_changed) is called either from workqueue or
> ioctl in all other instances.

Should we do the same for conf_tx, i.e. ieee80211_sta_wmm_params? I'm
not entirely sure the IBSS code doesn't still call it in a non-blocking
context though.

johannes

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