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Re: [PATCH] ath9k/mac80211: disallow fragmentation in ath9k, report to userspace

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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:35:05AM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
> As I've reported, ath9k currently fails utterly when fragmentation
> is enabled. This makes ath9k "support" hardware fragmentation by
> not supporting fragmentation at all to avoid the double-free issue.
> The patch also changes mac80211 to report errors from the driver
> operation to userspace.
> 
> That hack in ath9k should be removed once the rate control algorithm
> it has is fixed, and we can at that time consider removing the hw
> fragmentation support entirely since it's not used by any driver.

Thanks.

> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>

  Luis
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