Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Defer tranmission of mesh path errors
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:11:34 +0200
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On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 18:50 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote:

> The stress tests do trigger perrs and, with this change, we see a
> warning due to missing info->control.vif
> 
> [14202.988077] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [14202.988351] WARNING: at net/mac80211/util.c:358
> ieee80211_add_pending_skb+0x97/0xa0()

Interesting. Ok, that means we can't just use add_pending_skb(), we need
to do some setup before, all the setup that ieee80211_tx_skb() and
ieee80211_xmit() would do up to ieee80211_tx()...

I guess we need a little bit of helper code to enable this.

johannes