On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 11:46 +0200, Mattias Nissler wrote: > This brings up the question whether we can do without tx status > reporting. Does anyone know why hostapd requires the tx status? As far > as I understand, mac80211 only uses the tx status reporting only for the > tx rate control. Rate control algos that don't use tx status are > definitely feasible (and in fact we'll need one for rt73). mac80211 also uses it for reporting the sent frame to userspace on monitor interfaces. > I'll look into hostapd to figure out whether the tx status reporting is > really required when I find some time. hostapd requires this because it needs to know whether a station acknowledged a frame or not to proceed its state machine, it's just how it has to work. If the hardware can't deal with that I guess you can't implement AP mode properly. johannes
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