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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: stop tx before doing hw config and rate update

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On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 13:51 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> The assumption is that during the hw config, transmission was
> already stopped by mac80211. Sometimes the AP can be switching
> b/w the ht modes due to intolerant or etc where STA is in
> the middle of transmission. In such scenario, buffer overflow
> was observed at driver side. And also before updating the rate
> control, the frames are continued to xmited with older rates.
> This patch ensures that the frames are always xmitted with
> updated rates and avoid buffer overflow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks for your patience!

johannes

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