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Re: [PATCH 3/3] mac80211: fix VLAN handling with TXQs

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On Mon, 2017-09-04 at 16:23 +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> 
> Hmm, not apart from agreeing with you that it would be better to not
> drop everything when removing a VLAN. Not sure how often this
> happens, though (and hence how big of a problem it is). What happens
> in scenarios where hostapd is setup to automatically generate a bunch
> of VLANs for every client, for instance?

I'm not sure. However, I think it's less bad than one might guess since
it really should only affect multicast frames, right? All unicast
frames should go directly to the per-STA TXQ.

Right now, with TXQ, encrypted VLANs are completely broken, so surely
it's a step in the right direction?

johannes



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