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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: request TX status for BlockAck Requests

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On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 15:13 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> Because ieee80211_tx_status in status.c checks if
> outgoing BlockAck requests have been acked, it is
> necessary to tell the driver that tx feedback for
> this sort of frame is important.
> 
> Otherwise, the stack will continue to send the same
> BlockAck request over and over, which can cause
> the receiver to flush or clean its reorder buffer
> over and over.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> AFAICT no driver will be really affected by this patch since
> either the TX status is always reported anyway or not at all.
> 
> BTW: ieee80211_tx_skb_tid is used by a few other agg functions
> (mostly addba/delba), so maybe it would make sense to do the
> same there.

Applied.

johannes

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