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Re: [RFC V3 1/2] mac80211: add hw 80211 encapsulation offloading support

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On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 11:50 +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:

[snip, you really should try that sometimes ;-)]

> ieee80211_queue_skb() calls ieee80211_get_txq() which treats skb-
> datalike it contains an 802.11 header. That is probably not the
> intention here, is it?

Indeed, that makes no sense.

> I guess we could augment the TXQ stuctures to also handle 802.3 frames
> (and introduce ieee80211_queue_skb_8023())? Or would it be better to
> have a qdisc on 802.3-mode interfaces and push packets back to that? I
> guess we'd still benefit from per-station queueing of packets even if
> they are Ethernet frames, which would mean amending the TXQs would be
> better?

TXQs would be better, yes. We should do that.

johannes




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