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

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> If rt2x00 would use a global lock to block all TX and beacons, then yes.
> But rt2x00 uses per-queue locking. When a beacon is being updated rt2x00
> will still allow regular frames to be queued.

That just widens the window. And if you have multiple queues then you
can't do sw sequence numbers anyway because the hardware might reorder
the frames.

> As far as rt2x00 is concerned, all hardware that supports multi-bss also
> support HW sequence counters. rt2400pci and rt2500pci are the only ones
> requiring SW sequence counters, and they can't do multi-bss.

Do they keep per-BSS counters?

johannes

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