On Sunday 26 November 2006 05:05, Daniel Drake wrote: > Larry Finger wrote: > > In the scan section of ieee80211softmac, network transmits are disabled. > > Clearly, this does not make any sense as transmit is necessary for active > > scanning, and transmits are not used when passive scanning. > > Probe request frames are generated by softmac and do not go through the > TX queue. Disabling the TX queue has no effect on that.
That's just yet another problem. ;) The driver has its damn good reasons to disable the queue. (And only the driver should be allowed to disable that queue). Softmac ignoring this queue-disabled flag is just yet another bug. > Surely disabling the queue actually makes sense, in order to avoid > frames designated for the "current session" being transmitted on > different channels during scanning? This should be avoided by mechanisms in the firmware, as that's the only race-free place where a "Am I on the correct channel" check can happen. Additionally, the ieee80211 stack should keep track of the currently set channel and don't transmit frames on the wrong channel. But I don't really think this is worth fixing, as it's all already fixed in d80211 (Well, these bugs have never been in there afaik ;) ). -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
