> I see, AP mode is different story and in second thought it think we > can use this to speed up TX path > also for iwliwfi, we waste significant time on searching for STA based > on MAC address. > So it's ACK from me. Thanks for opening my eyes :) > > Another question is if there will be more info needed for station in the driver. > Currently in iwlwifi we have STA representation, this is HW > requirement but some data are kept twice in iwlwifi and mac. > The question is whether STA mac80211 representation cannot be more > accessible to the driver? Not sure how this can be done > without over complicated station book keeping. Yeah, that's a bit tough, I'm not sure how to do it. Maybe we could have a struct ieee80211_sta_info (defined in mac80211.h) embedded into struct sta_info and pass that along everywhere sort of like we do with struct key/key_conf? johannes
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