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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] cfg80211 and nl80211

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On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 19:29 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:

> No. It's the other way around, when they're reported immediately, they
> will be out of order. ieee80211_tx_status is called from the interrupt
> handler as the result of the frame being actually sent. Before that, a
> frame can sit for an arbitrary long time in the hw queue or not sent at
> all. Reporting only frames confirmed by ieee80211_tx_status as
> successfully sent at the time the function is called reflects better
> what is on the air (it's still not perfect as things like
> retransmissions are not caught).

Yeah, you're right. Then again, it doesn't matter all that much since if
you want exact timing you need a card that never transmits in monitor
mode anyway.

johannes

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