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Re: [PATCH 5/5] mac80211: move TX info into skb->cb

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On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 12:55 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> plain text document attachment (019-mac80211-tx-info-skb-cb.patch)
> This patch converts mac80211 and all drivers to have transmit
> information and status in skb->cb rather than allocating extra
> memory for it and copying all the data around. To make it fit,
> a union is used where only data that is necessary for all steps
> is kept outside of the union.
> 
> A number of fixes were done by Ivo, as well as the rt2x00 part
> of this patch.

I mangled it a bit though so you may want to check it, mac80211 now sets
REQ_TX_STATUS so you can use that for status reporting, but you can't
use it for queue kicking at least not in the future when mac80211 might
not set it on all frames.

johannes

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