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

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On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Yeah, and I actually think I found another race with this code, I'm
> going to try something a bit different now.

OK yay, took a while but I think I found a better and proper fix for
this. Will post next.

  Luis
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