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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code

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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:01:48PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> Dave, please allow me to ask a heretical question.  Returning TX_BUSY has some 
> appeal for virtio_net: is it fundamentally a flawed idea, or simply a matter 
> of coding?

I don't think returning TX_BUSY is fundamentally flawed (unlike
LLTX which is).  However, until somebody (i.e., you :) writes
the code to handle it properly, i.e., not making the requeued
packet go through AF_PCAKET twice, it's something that shouldn't
be encouraged.

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