Hi, > > rt2x00 devices can't generate rts/cts frames themselves, but rely on the > > driver to generate them. Also, the hardware reports tx status back for > > those frames. Now the question is whether these frames should be > > reported back to mac80211 using ieee80211_tx_status[_irqsafe]. AFAIK, > > this has some subtle effects, e.g. they won't show up on monitor > > interfaces if we don't report them. > > They never show up on monitor interfaces for all other hardware because > there the hardware handles them. How is it that rt2x00 cannot handle > rts? It has to at least know that an RTS was sent and to send the frame > only after the CTS, and that needs to be a MAC function and cannot be > implemented in host software. > > So, I'd think they shouldn't be reported at all. Than this is a problem in multiple mac80211 drivers, since rt2x00 previously did filter out rts and cts frames when reporting txdone events to mac80211 and upon request on the linux-wireless list that filter was disabled, because the other drivers didn't filter the RTS/CTS frames so for consistent behavior the filter was removed from rt2x00. Ivo - 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
