From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: allow driver to handle packet-loss mechanism
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:06:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1473833168.4423.3.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e968a9083a9f5fd7e9c04d563288b229@codeaurora.org>
> > The way you describe this it sounds like somehow you'll be
> > reporting the indication to userspace from the driver; but you do
> > not, and cannot do that. The description seems thus misleading?
> >
> Sorry for confusion.. The idea is that driver will report low ack
> status by ieee80211_report_low_ack and if driver wants to completely
> rely on firmware algorithm, then this flag will be used to bypass
> mac80211 packet loss mechanism. does it make sense?
Oh, so you *can* already do that. Please just say that in the commit
message.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-14 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-06 6:56 [PATCH] mac80211: allow driver to handle packet-loss mechanism Rajkumar Manoharan
2016-09-12 12:44 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-12 17:57 ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2016-09-14 6:06 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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