Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote: > I can't really tell... I guess it depends on the firmware / hardware. On these > devices (dvm), the firmware would take a very long time to send / drop the > packets. I guess it is a bug, and users have been suffering from this for a > very long time. Thing is that I was educated by the "Thee shall not drop > packets" mantra. But it appears that sometimes, it is very healthy to drop > packets to solve the traffic jam. Here, I just drop the packets besides the VO > queue to allow the roaming mgmt frames to reach their goal (I rely on the fact > that the VO queue will not be too large...).
Ok. ath9k does have a timeout, so we drain (drop) all pending frames if flushing doesn't complete within a reasonable time. Sujith -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
