netdev - Re: [Ipw2100-devel] ipw2100: race between isr_indicate

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Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:36:42 +0100
From:	Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@...glemail.com>
To:	Jouni Malinen <j@...fi>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@...el.com>,
	"ipw2100-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<ipw2100-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Ipw2100-devel] ipw2100: race between isr_indicate_associated and rx path

Am Montag, 23. Februar 2009 schrieb Jouni Malinen:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:38:57AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> 
> > Jouni, would you accept a patch for wpa_supplicant that adds some retries
> > to l2_packet_send when the network stack returns an error?

[...]

> I did not fully understand the details of the issue and why noop_qdisc
> is used at the point when a frame is delivered to user space, so I may
> be missing some details here. Anyway, I would highly prefer the kernel
> to avoid delivering EAPOL frames into user space if it is not ready to
> transmit a response to them.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Helmut
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