To: "Holger Schurig" <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
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	Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipw2200: increase scan timeout
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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:24:59 +0200
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Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> writes:

> Second thing: why should the association get's cleared if the 
> adapter get's reset?  Isn't one a (assoc) at protocol level and 
> the other (adapter) a hardware thing?

Good point. I once had a bad bug in stlc45xx tx queue handling and
firmware was crashing all the time. While the firmware was reset
association state wasn't changed and I could, for example, run iperf
tests while firmware was resetting without userspace noticing anything
(expect a slight decreare of throughput of course). This might depend
on firmware implementation, but at least with softmac devices it
shouldn't be a problem.

-- 
Kalle Valo