Re: wi polling

Hi,

On 10/21/2002 10:13 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <[email protected]>
>             Andriy Gapon <[email protected]> writes:
> : is it possible to work with wi-supported devices in polling mode ?
> 
> No.
> 
> : will it have any benefits over usual interrupt-driven mode ?
> 
> It would be slower.
> 
> : have anybody tried ?
> 
> Yes.  It sucked really bad.

that's too bad - our Soekris boxes livelock easily doing hostap 
processing. Is this something that cannot ever work (e.g. due to how 
hostap works, which I have only a foggy notion of)?

(I guess it must be, since Warner would be the person to know.)

Lars
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Lars Eggert <[email protected]>           USC Information Sciences Institute