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

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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Cool. Glad that we agree ;)

-Toke



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