On Saturday 22 September 2007, Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > > On Saturday 22 September 2007 11:48:00 Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > > > A real high-quality driver will require Johannes' proposed > > > mac80211 driver interface changes to be merged and TX > > > confirmations handled in a way, that the semantics can really be > > > supported by the driver. (Michael Buesh's patch is taping over the > > > issue.) > > > > No it is not. It is fixing the issue. It fixes the following issues: > > > * You must ignore the Txstat-requested bit in the driver. > > If that is really the case the flag should be removed from > mac80211. There is no way for somebody looking at the code to know > this. It is used internally in mac80211. > > * You must report bad frames with the excessive_retries set. > > All bad frames or only those with actual excessive retries? Your patch > set the excessive_retries flag for packets that couldn't be > transmitted to the device because of an USB error. If the flag > should be set for all kinds of errors it should be renamed. Well, there is no better flag to set, currently. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
