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On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 15:43 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:

> > > Hence, would it be possible to:
> > > 1) Stop all sub_if tx queues (afterwards no new data frames should
> > >    appear in the mdev tx queue)
> > > 2) Queue the nullfunc frame
> > > 3) Flush the mdev's tx queue
> > > 4) Switch the channel
> > > ?
> > 
> > I don't think that is sufficient,
> 
> Maybe not sufficient, but it's at least an improvement.

True. The other thing is that it's not entirely trivial to flush the
mdev queues afaict.

> > unless the driver also flushes the 
> > hardware queue at channel switch time.
> 
> Yes, but that would be the drivers responsibility and could be
> fixed in a second step.
> 
> > Which we may want to make explicit with a new callback or so?
> 
> And make it mandatory?

Maybe not -- drivers that don't handle it wouldn't be off worse than
now, after all.

johannes

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