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Re: [PATCH] wl12xx: set the actual tid instead of the ac

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On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Juuso Oikarinen
<juuso.oikarinen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 23:03 +0200, ext Eliad Peller wrote:
>> When passing a tx frame, the driver incorrectly set desc->tid
>> with the ac instead of the actual tid.
>>
>> It has some serious implications when using 802.11n + QoS,
>> as the fw starts a BlockAck with the wrong tid (which finally
>> cause beacon loss and disconnection / some fw crash)
>>
>> Fix it by using the actual tid stored in skb->priority.
>
> How will the firmware handle the TIDs larger than 3, as currently to the
> firmware it appears only TID's 0-3 are configured, and the rest are
> whatever values happen to be there default?
>
that's a good question.
according to the fw guys, the fw auto-maps the tid to the correct ac.
the confusing thing is that ACX_TID_CFG actually gets AC as its input
(in the queue_id param) rather than TID.
thus, only 0-3 (ACs, not TIDs) are configured.

Eliad.
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