netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mac80211: mesh: flush stations before beacons are stopped

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Message-ID: <1470044373.3389.20.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Mon, 01 Aug 2016 11:39:33 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Yaniv Machani <yanivma@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Maital Hahn <maitalm@...com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mac80211: mesh: flush stations before beacons
 are stopped

On Wed, 2016-07-13 at 14:44 +0300, Yaniv Machani wrote:
> From: Maital Hahn <maitalm@...com>
> 
> Some drivers (e.g. wl18xx) expect that the last stage in the
> de-initialization process will be stopping the beacons, similar to AP
> flow.
> Update ieee80211_stop_mesh() flow accordingly.
> As peers can be removed dynamically, this would not impact other
> drivers.
> 
Ah, I see now that you did :)

johannes