netdev - Re: d80211: How does TX flow control work?

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:20:12 +0100
From:	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...e.cz>
To:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ivo Van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>,
	rt2400-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Jouni Malinen <jkm@...icescape.com>,
	Simon Barber <simon@...icescape.com>
Subject: Re: d80211: How does TX flow control work?

On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:18:48 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> The actual problem was meanwhile identified: shorewall happened to
> overwrite the queueing discipline of wmaster0 with pfifo_fast. I found
> the magic knob to tell shorewall to no longer do this (at least until I
> want to manage traffic control that way...), but I still wonder if it is
> an acceptable situation. Currently, the user can intentionally or
> accidentally screw up the stack this way.

Hm, we probably need a way to tell the kernel not to remove 802.11
qdisc. Jouni, Simon, is that possible or do we need to patch NET_SCHED
code?

Thanks,

 Jiri

-- 
Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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