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Re: [PATCH 5/6] mac80211: add WMM IE to mesh frames

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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 18:03 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
>> Include the WMM IE in mesh peering and beacon frames. This is needed
>> tell any potential peers what our WMM / EDCA parameters are.
>
> The goal seems fine but why bother building the WMM IE out of the actual
> TX queue configuration? Shouldn't it normally be the other way around?
> But I have no idea how QoS is supposed to work in a mesh...

I'm not sure what you mean, this is the only way to get the WMM
parameters? Usually these are just set with ieee80211_set_wmm_defaul()
on bringing up the interface.

Thomas
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