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Re: Compat-wireless-3.2-rc6-3 is broken for rt2860 device

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Andreas Hartmann
<andihartmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Helmut Schaa schrieb:
>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Andreas Hartmann
>> <andihartmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> All in one: Your workaround was a good idea, but unfortunately it
>>> doesn't "solve" / workaround the problem introduced with the patch
>>> "mac80211: retry sending failed BAR frames later instead of tearing
>>> down aggr" [1]. I don't know off any other solution at this time as to revert it.
>>
>> Ok, so we've got at least one hw issue here: rt2800 is not able to report
>> correct ACK state of BARs :(
>>
>> The interesting bit is that the legacy drivers tear the BA session down as
>> soon as the first AMPDU subframe failed. That's the same behavior as
>> mac80211 had before the mentioned patch.
>>
>> So, let's assume the generic way Felix implemented works for other devices
>> (like ath9k) we could go with a workaround inside rt2x00 to tear down
>> the BA session as soon as the first AMPDU frame failed.
>>
>> Mind to try that one (not even compile tested though :) ).
>
> hdr is missing. I tried to derive it like this:
>
> struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr=(void*)entry->skb->data;

Looks correct but you should put it right before the ieee80211_is_data_qos check
not at the start of the function ...

Also you might want to add " tx_info->control.sta != NULL" check in
the same if clause.

Helmut
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