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Re: [RFC][PATCH] TX status reporting with help of an ack queue

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On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 22:20 +0200, Mattias Nissler wrote:

> Well, I'm a big fan of modularizing everything in a clean way. This
> whole mac80211 thingy is complex enough... But I don't really care as
> long as everybody here is happy with it. Let's wait what Mikko says,
> it's his code so far.

Sure. If you manage to split it out entirely, maybe by some struct that
drivers embed in their private vif struct, that'd be great too.


> > But ACK is getting confusing, we're just reporting status based on
> > reception (or non-reception!) of ACKs :) How about retries in the hw?
> 
> Retries in the hw? I don't understand? You mean that as a name?

Well, with all this we won't know how many times the hardware attempted
to send a frame before it got an ACK, if it got one at all. We'd like to
know this too, I guess, for the rate control algorithm.

johannes

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