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Subject: Re: [RFC] serialising net80211 TX
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On 18 February 2013 02:05, Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Here's version two of the patch: it includes the rest of the TX paths
>> locked as well as some extra assertions about the state of the TX lock
>> requirements.
>
> Why not make ieee80211_start_pkt public? So that we can call it from
> mesh_transmit_to_gate in mesh.c?

My aim is to have ieee80211_start_pkt() be what dispatches an actual
packet, whilst going via if_transmit() will handle queuing, hecking
for interface status/CAC, etc.



adrian