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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Fix a race on enabling power save.
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 23:37:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikqBvB6+bwKRPFb+oSstzbR9K=bdmjK-D76D23Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296800640-6381-2-git-send-email-vnatarajan@atheros.com>

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> wrote:
> There is a race of queuing a data frame before the tx completion
> of nullfunc frame for enabling power save. This has caused a power
> save state mismatch between the station and the AP. This patch
> addresses this issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>

Not stable fix? What't the effect of not having this patch? The
description could use some love to explain better what is observed in
terms of metrics or loss.

  Luis

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-04  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-04  6:23 [PATCH 1/2] ath9k: Drain txq before sending a nullfunc frame Vivek Natarajan
2011-02-04  6:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Fix a race on enabling power save Vivek Natarajan
2011-02-04  7:37   ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2011-02-04  9:26     ` Vivek Natarajan
2011-02-04 10:31   ` Johannes Berg
2011-02-04  7:36 ` [PATCH 1/2] ath9k: Drain txq before sending a nullfunc frame Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-02-04  7:36   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-02-04 14:21     ` John W. Linville
2011-02-04 14:57       ` Greg KH
2011-02-04  8:28 ` Sujith
2011-02-04  9:17   ` Vivek Natarajan
2011-02-04 10:23     ` Sujith
2011-02-04 10:47       ` Vivek Natarajan
2011-02-04 11:07         ` Sujith
2011-02-09 19:06     ` Kalle Valo

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