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Re: [RFC] mac80211: fix release_reorder_timeout in scan

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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 11:49 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> >> I don't get what we are doing with these frames today, are you saying
>> >> we pegged some of these frames into the reorder buffer when starting a
>> >> sw scan, or that we were dropping them?
>
>> yeah, I was thinking about the release reorder buffer and its
>> respective timeout, I thought that's what the subject of this patch
>> was about.
>
> So I got confused by your question ...
>
> We put them into the reorder buffer, but if we get a reorder timeout
> while scanning we'll drop the frames which isn't necessary.

Ah, got it, thanks, good catch. Guess its not a terrible stable fix,
but at least important for those who care about VoIP and such.

  Luis
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