RE: [RFC/PATCH 6/13] d80211: remove obsolete stuff

2006-03-21 Thread Simon Barber
-Original Message- From: Jouni Malinen Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:48 PM To: Simon Barber Cc: Jiri Benc; netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 6/13] d80211: remove obsolete stuff On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:41:56PM -0800, Simon Barber wrote: The more natural way for beacons to flow

Re: [RFC/PATCH 6/13] d80211: remove obsolete stuff

2006-03-16 Thread Jiri Benc
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:36:16 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: In theory, the low-level driver can determine the needed mask itself. However, it would need to be somehow notified of allowed BSSID values. By removing this entry, this information would need to fetched from somewhere else before

Re: [RFC/PATCH 6/13] d80211: remove obsolete stuff

2006-03-16 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 05:45:48PM +0100, Jiri Benc wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:36:16 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: See the patch below. Is it viable? I'll test this with our low-level driver. This and similar change for ieee80211_get_buffered_bc() add more requirements for the low-level

Re: [RFC/PATCH 6/13] d80211: remove obsolete stuff

2006-03-15 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:44:26PM +0100, Jiri Benc wrote: Because any number of interfaces may be added, bss_devs and sta_devs arrays cannot be fixed-size arrays. We can make them linked lists, but they are needed for optimalization only (and even that is questionable with subsequent

RE: [RFC/PATCH 6/13] d80211: remove obsolete stuff

2006-03-15 Thread Simon Barber
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jouni Malinen Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:36 PM To: Jiri Benc Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 6/13] d80211: remove obsolete stuff On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:44:26PM +0100, Jiri Benc wrote: Because any number of interfaces may

Re: [RFC/PATCH 6/13] d80211: remove obsolete stuff

2006-03-15 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:41:56PM -0800, Simon Barber wrote: The more natural way for beacons to flow from the 80211.o to the low level driver would be for beacons to be passed down just like any other 802.11 frame is passed down - rather than having a special case for beacons and buffered MC

Re: [RFC/PATCH 6/13] d80211: remove obsolete stuff

2006-03-06 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:07:26PM +0100, Jiri Benc wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:49:46 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: The reason for this optimization was in even high-end CPUs starting to run out of resources when running one radio with 2007 virtual STAs, Yes, I'm aware of that. But I'm