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Re: [PATCH 1/3] mac80211: add power state transition callbacks

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On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:15 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:

> > Unless we want to defer RX packet processing to a workqueue rather than
> > a tasklet?

> Hmm, but if we put the RX packet processing into a workqueue, we have to
> put the tx status report processing in one too (see comment about rx/tx race
> in main.c line 400)?

Yeah, probably. I don't know all the details all the time, so I write
such comments ;)

> Or do you mean I should only put ap_sta_ps_end  (& ap_sta_ps_start) 
> resending stuff into a workqueue? (Yeah, this makes a lot more sense,
> and might actually work!, well let's prepare another patch)

No idea!

The only thing I was thinking is that it's not a good plan to have a
callback that has different locking requirements depending on a
parameter.

johannes

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