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

[Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@freenet.de>]

Helmut Schaa schrieb:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Andreas Hartmann
> <andihartmann@01019freenet.de> 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;

Unfortunately, it crashes the machine after short time of operation.
Therefore I think that it isn't derived correctly!


Regards,
Andreas

> 
> Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
> index c930ce0..9038934 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
> @@ -420,8 +420,16 @@ void rt2x00lib_txdone(struct queue_entry *entry,
>  		tx_info->status.ampdu_len = 1;
>  		tx_info->status.ampdu_ack_len = success ? 1 : 0;
> 
> -		if (!success)
> -			tx_info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK;
> +		if (!success && ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control)) {
> +			/*
> +			 * Tear down BA session
> +			 */
> +			struct ieee80211_sta *sta = tx_info->control.sta;
> +			u8 *qc = ieee80211_get_qos_ctl(hdr);
> +			int tid = *qc & IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_TID_MASK;
> +
> +			ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session(sta, tid);
> +		}
>  	}
> 
>  	if (rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_RTS_CTS) {