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Re: [RFC] mac80211,iwlwifi: disabling qos queues

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:18:02PM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > > I looked at this on the air. Everything is fine until device send QoS
> > > > NULL frame (even with default parameters: normal ACK, TXOP request). 
> > > > Then AP send two strange Probe Response frames and Disassociate frame
> > > > with "Micheal MIC failure" error.
> > > 
> > > So here's good information, why did you not mention that before? :)
> > > 
> > > Yeah I guess in some sense this code dates back in mac80211 to where it
> > > assumed that the driver wasn't sending frames. I'll give it a thought,
> > > but I'm at a conference right now.
> > 
> > May I proceed with my patches or do you have a better idea how to solve
> > issue?
> 
> Sorry ... I had given this some thought and then got distracted ...
> still had it unread but no time to reply. What I finally realised is
> that we set the information per queue, and even the userspace API is
> built that way, so we really need to have a separate configuration to
> enable/disable QoS. Maybe a BSS config flag would be appropriate?

Maybe in -next but not in -stable since drivers in ieee80211_ops->config 
and ieee80211_ops->bss_info_chnged do some additional work not looking at
changed variable. So my plan is put change I proposed in stable and
further optimize it in -next, ok?

Stanislaw
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