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Re: [PATCH] remove IEEE80211_HW_FRAGLIST flag

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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:07:49 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 08:04 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> 
> > The reason for this flag was to reduce host CPU load for frame
> > aggregation (merging multiple frames (skb's) into one frame. It was used
> > to implement one part of Atheros Super A/G enhancements, but I don't see
> > those proprietary changes being generic enough to be worth adding into
> > net/d80211. However, IEEE 802.11n has similar features that may indeed
> > benefit from this flag. As such, I would not remove it.
> 
> But we can never submit fragmented SKBs currently anyway, so whenever we
> do any 802.11n changes that benefit from it we can add the flag back.

I agree. Let's add the flag later when this is actually needed.

Applied, thanks for patch!

 Jiri

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Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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