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Subject: Re: iwlwifi driver vs. mac80211 vs. duplicate transmissions etc.
From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
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On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:56 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Is there any reason the driver tries to drop duplicate packets, out of
> order fragments etc? That's just extra code and mac80211 does that
> already.

We took over that function from ipw2200 in the beginning of iwlwifi.
I'll go through the mac80211 drop duplicate function and remove the one
in iwlwifi if necessary.

Thanks,
-yi