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RE: [RFC PATCH 07/10] mac80211: A-MPDU Tx change tx_status to support Block Ack data

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>>> Broadcom hardware is able to give intermediate status notifications,
>>> would there be any use in those?
>>
>> Can you explain?

> Actually, I don't really know what the microcode there provides. I
guess
> it tells you something like "I sent this frame, no TX errors occurred"
or
> so...

> Johannes

>From what you wrote, I would also guess that these notifications
indicate that the Tx itself was OK, as we have the same mechanism. Yet,
Block Ack handling is a must if we want good rate scaling during A-MPDU,
so the driver will have to communicate this data to the rate scaling
module with no connection to HW conformations.

Ron
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