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Re: [RFC]: ath5k: enable TXOK IRQ

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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:13:52AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> I tried to use ath5k in AP mode with hostapd, but hostapd never
> added the authenticated and associated stations to the kernel.
> The reason is that ath5k didn't invoke the tx tasklet, so it
> did not call the ieee80211_tx_status() function and userspace
> didn't receive the radiotap message indicating success.
>
> The root cause appears to be that the TXOK interrupt is not
> enabled, so the tasklet is never scheduled. I'm not sure whether
> TXOK is really the correct one to handle ! IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK,
> but it fixes the problem for me.

Any comments from the ath5k "usual suspects" on this one?

John
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