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Re: [PATCH 00/18] mac80211 cleanups and fixes

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On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 08:44 +0530, Sujith wrote:
> Johannes Berg wrote:
>  > I had actually tried
>  > (http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/ath9k-sta-node.patch)
>  > but you're using refcounting for the nodes while mac80211 RCU-protects
>  > them, so I didn't get very far. It needs a bit more effort to make sure
>  > you don't have node pointers stick around in some tx descriptor after
>  > mac80211 decides to remove a node (which may very well happen while
>  > frames are queued)
> 
> Well, the node stuff is sprinkled throughout ath9k right now, I'll start
> cleaning up all that and revamp the aggregation logic in the process too.
> Do you mind if I build on this patch ?

Not at all, feel free to use it for whatever you want.

johannes

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