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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: partially fix skb->cb use

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On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:48 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This patch fixes mac80211 to not use the skb->cb over the queue step
> > from virtual interfaces to the master. The patch also, for now,
> > disables aggregation because that would still require requeuing,
> > will fix that in a separate patch. There are two other places (software
> > requeue and powersaving stations) where requeue can happen, but that is
> > not currently used by any drivers/not possible to use respectively.
> 
> What about about ieee80211_get_rate(hw, const struct ieee80211_tx_info *c).
> It's used in tx path in the drivers and info is fetched from cb

So what about it? mac80211 builds the info in skb->cb just fine before
it passes the frame to the driver.

johannes

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