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Re: [PATCH 6/6] mac80211: stop queues before rate control updation

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On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:44 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:

> > During the channel type change, the pending tx frames in hw queues are dropped by hw config.
> > But before updating rate control, the packets can be queued again with older HT rates.
> > This contradicts with hw config mode and sometimes is causing baseband issues. This issue
> > was observed only on flooding uplink traffic. To ensure that the frames are always xmitted with
> > updated rates, the queues are stopped before hw config and waken up after rc updation.
> 
> Johannes, do you find this explanation satisfactory (perhaps with
> some new queue stop reason definition)?

No, it doesn't address the fact that any packet that is pending will
still be processed -- as I said before, the stop doesn't include a
flush.

johannes

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