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Re: [PATCH 2/4] mac80211: Fix accounting of multicast frames

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On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 21:26 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> From: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Since multicast frames are marked as no-ack, using
> IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK to check if they have been
> successfully transmitted by the driver is incorrect
> since a driver can choose to ignore transmission status
> for no-ack frames. This results in incorrect accounting
> for such frames.
> 
> To fix this issue, this patch introduces a new flag
> that can be used by drivers to indicate error-free
> transmission of no-ack frames.

Seems fine, applied. I've worded the documentation a bit more strongly.

johannes

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