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Re: [RFCv2 1/2] mac80211: Add provision for 802.11 encap offload

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On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 17:03 +0530, mpubbise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Drivers can have the capability to offload 802.11 encap
> to firmware or hardware for data frames. This patch adds a new
> hw_flag for driver to advertise the offload support.
> Transmit path offloading 802.11 header (including cipher headers)
> encap for data frames will be implemented in a separate patch.
> 
> Drivers advertising this capability should also implement other
> functionalities which deal with 802.11 frame format like below
> 
>         - Hardware encryption
>         - Aggregation of A-MSDU offload
>         - Fragmentation offload

Not much point in having this as a separate patch, but this
documentation paragraph should move into the documentation for the new
flag in mac80211.h

johannes




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