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

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry my mistake. This is built after the packet get to  master xmit
Tomas
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