From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Alexandre Becholey <alexandre@shockfish.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IEEE80211 Acknowledgement
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 18:55:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905041855.17435.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241455195.8683.61.camel@johannes.local>
On Monday 04 May 2009, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 18:35 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
>
> > Well I believe the idea would be that (I'll see if I can dig up a reference
> > to the initial discussion about this feature on this list) the driver sets a flag
> > that mac80211 needs to keep a list of all frames send out to the driver and
> > listens for ACK's.
> >
> > As soon as a ACK was passed from driver to mac80211 it could check if
> > the corresponding frame
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Here's the problem. What I'm saying is that there's no way to knowing
> what the "corresponding frame" is.
Hmm, so would there be any alternatives of fixing this problem?
Because it is quite hard to sell to people that rt2500usb/rt73usb don't
support Master mode, while the legacy drivers (the closed source version)
actually do support it, because they apparently don't care for the ACK status.
Ivo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 15:16 IEEE80211 Acknowledgement Alexandre Becholey
2009-05-04 15:29 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-05-04 15:32 ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-04 16:35 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-05-04 16:39 ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-04 16:55 ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]
2009-05-04 17:02 ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-04 17:05 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-05-05 7:44 ` Alexandre Becholey
2009-05-05 8:34 ` Ivo van Doorn
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