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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix rate_control_send_low warnings for delbas

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On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 10:10 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> > I really think that can be done more easily though. For one, clearly we
> > already have the warning, so we don't need more infrastructure to catch
> > such errors?!
> 
> This is true, I just added that to ensure I hit these when testing
> really, I can nuke the counter, but it can help if eventually believe
> we have a proper fix to allow these frames through somehow too.
> 
> > Also, this may end up hiding issues that we don't yet
> > understand, like the nullfunc one you were talking about.
> 
> Yeah, good point, although I am under the impression this is a similar
> situation, we probably try to send a nullfunc to notify the old AP we
> are going to go awake if we are transmitting data while roaming. But
> yeah, its not easily triggerable yet.
> 
> > The delBA one
> > we now understand fully, so it makes more sense to simply suppress
> > sending delBA when we are going to disassociate by way of associating
> > with a new AP, no?
> 
> That's reasonable but we will still need the channel, otherwise how
> would we know its this issue?

Why do we care? We can just always suppress sending the delba when we
get into _set_disassoc() from mgd_assoc(), no?

johannes

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