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On Monday 04 May 2009, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 18:35 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> 
> > Well I believe the idea would be that (I'll see if I can dig up a reference
> > to the initial discussion about this feature on this list) the driver sets a flag
> > that mac80211 needs to keep a list of all frames send out to the driver and
> > listens for ACK's.
> > 
> > As soon as a ACK was passed from driver to mac80211 it could check if
> > the corresponding frame 
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Here's the problem. What I'm saying is that there's no way to knowing
> what the "corresponding frame" is.

Hmm, so would there be any alternatives of fixing this problem?
Because it is quite hard to sell to people that rt2500usb/rt73usb don't
support Master mode, while the legacy drivers (the closed source version)
actually do support it, because they apparently don't care for the ACK status.

Ivo
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