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Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k, multiple stations, and AMPDUs

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On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 14:19 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:

> To keep track of the Block ACK window, it needs to look up the TID, for
> which it needs a STA pointer. At that level, the driver typically
> doesn't have access to the vif.
> 
> It might be possible to fix this by adding another sta lookup helper
> function in mac80211 that takes another address argument for the BSSID,
> so that it can get the sta entry for the correct vif. I don't know if
> Johannes wants something like that though.

Seems simple enough, and if it fixes things ... for iwlwifi I fixed the
driver to keep track of the vif properly, though more work it does make
a lot more things better than just this.

johannes

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