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Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: Fix a race on enabling power save.

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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If the device queues are stopped, we have to find some other fix for
>> this power save issue since null func frame will be queued to pending
>> frames as I mentioned earlier. Can we have this patch merged and fix
>> the monitor vif issue for this case and the scanning case later? I
>> have also sent a RFC patch earlier with stopping device queues and a
>> new PS_PENDING flag for this
>> (http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=129775059910372&w=3) That patch
>> also addresses this race.
>
> I think for a first solution we can probably get away not worrying about
> monitor injection frames, since typically they'd be used by P2P things
> that disable powersave anyway. Right? And we already have the monitor
> vs. flush problem anyway.

Thanks. I will resend the patch rebased to current wireless-testing.

Vivek.
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