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Re: [RFC] mac80211: Re-enable aggregation

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On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 19:55 +0530, Sujith wrote:
> Johannes Berg wrote:
> > We have this "ampdu_ack_map" parameter in the TX status which could be
> > set by the driver. But that assumes we only want a single TX status for
> > all A-MPDU frames, do we really? Or do we want to split them up and
> > handle it all in mac80211?
> 
> I wasn't aware of this parameter at all. Looks useful.
> 
> Atheros HW reports the Block Ack bitmap of the entire aggregate.
> So passing that up to mac80211, and letting mac80211 handle retransmissions would work.
> I am not sure about Intel.

Intel does the retransmissions in hw. Not sure how we'd want to handle
that difference.

johannes

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