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Re: [PATCH 1/3] mac80211: Include sequence number in IBSS and Mesh beacons

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On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:38 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 July 2008 15:11:45 Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > Currently only beacons generated in AP mode have the software
> > sequence number inserted. This means IBSS and Mesh mode are broken
> > for all hardware that require software sequence numbers.
> 
> Does software seq numbering even work at all?
> What about packets that get sent between the driver requested the
> beacon and the driver does actually queue it?

Hmm. I guess we'd have to lock the master device while requesting a
beacon... but also lock around the driver code queuing the beacon or
something?

johannes

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