On Wednesday 18 November 2009, Johannes Berg wrote: > Right now all frames mac80211 hands to the driver > have the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag set to > request TX status. This isn't really necessary, only > the injected frames need TX status (the latter for > hostapd) so move setting this flag. > > The rate control algorithms also need TX status, but > they don't require it. > > Also, rt2x00 uses that bit for its own purposes and > seems to require it being set for all frames, but > that can be fixed in rt2x00. > > This doesn't really change anything for any drivers > but in the future drivers using hw-rate control may > opt to not report TX status for frames that don't > have the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag set. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Looks good. Thanks. For the rt2x00 part: Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
