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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: synchronize driver rx queues before removing a station

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On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 23:46 +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> From: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Some devices, like iwlwifi, have RSS queues. This may cause a
> situation where a disassociation is handled in control path and
> results in station removal while there are prior RX frames
> that were still not processed in other queues. When they will
> be processed the station will be gone, and the frames will be
> dropped.
> Add a synchronization interface to avoid that. When driver returns
> from the synchronization mac80211 may remove the station.
> 
Applied.

johannes
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