On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > What about monitor interfaces/injection? Do they already set it? > > > > No, should they? > > Yes, I think so, since hostapd uses injection for frames and definitely > needs status callback. We could later define a radiotap bit for that, of > course. Ok, I'll update the patch. > > We could even make it so that the mac80211 tx_status handler will ignore > > the frame when the flag is set so drivers won't have to look at it at all. > > You mean "when the flag is unset"? Not sure, maybe we should, but we'll > see that when more uses for it come up/better rate control algorithms > are developed. The most important frames the issue currently arises is with RTS and CTS-to-self frames. rt2x00 requests those frames from mac80211 and currently clears the IEEE80211_TXCTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag to prevent it being send to mac80211 to not upset the rc-algorithm. 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
