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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: Drop probe responses when too many are queued
To: Vivek Natarajan <nataraja@qti.qualcomm.com>, kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com
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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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On 08/31/2015 04:04 AM, Vivek Natarajan wrote:
> In a noisy environment, when multiple interfaces are created,
> the management tx descriptors are fully occupied by the probe
> responses from all the interfaces. This prevents a new station
> from a successful association.
>
> Fix this by limiting the probe responses when the specified
> threshold limit is reached.

Is this useful when firmware supports management-tx over HTT (instead of WMI)?

Or just for WMI mgt?

Thanks,
Ben

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