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Sujith wrote:
> Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Just a quick note -- was testing fragmentation and happened to use ath9k
> > as the test station, this failed utterly, it sent increasing sequence
> > numbers and no fragment number.
> 
> Sequence number handling is pretty much borked in ath9k.
> There is a comment in assign_aggr_tid_seqno@xxxxxx - and it doesn't make much sense.
> Removing all crappy code in ath9k dealing with this and leaving everything
> to mac80211 would certainly be the better option, but we still have to figure
> out how to manage BA windows.
> 

And a quick hack to fix this would be to not increment the internal sequence
number when the frame is fragmented. But that is what it would be, a hack. :)

Sujith
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