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Re: [RFC v4] mac80211: re-enable aggregation on 2.6.27

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On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>> <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> A quick test indicates it works but the removal is still an issue.
>>
>> I didn't implement it yet I just wanted a feedback if I'm in correct
>> direction with the starting part.
>
> Seems reasonable so far, my concern so far was just the introduction
> of a new spinlock for the ba_session list, but I can't see yet a
> better way.
>
> At this point I've given up hope of this getting merged but I do think
> distributions using 2.6.27 will want this anyway so we might as well
> finish the job and maintain it ourselves should it not get merged.
> What do you think?
>
>> yes ieee80211_init_agg()
>
> Thanks, I'm using this now.
>
>>> I don't think it was locking before under the code which is now
>>> under initiate_aggr_and_timer() though.
>>
>> Correct you cannot lock this part it leads to soft lock.
>
> Oh ok v3 had this order.
>
>  Luis
>
I'm proposing to drop this implementation at all and focus on correct
solution , this is just too messy.
Maybe develop it over 2.6.27 so it will be maybe merge to stable
release as well.

Tomas
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