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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] mac80211: Don't use a buf_size=0 in ADDBA requests
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:29:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312792163.4372.5.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312537579-18950-1-git-send-email-helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> (sfid-20110805_114652_677728_F18AA5DB)

On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 11:46 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> According to 802.11-2007, 7.3.1.14 it is compliant to use a buf_size of
> 0 in ADDBA requests. But some devices (AVM Fritz Stick N) arn't able to
> handle that correctly and will reply with an ADDBA reponse with a
> buf_size of 0 which in turn will disallow BA sessions for these
> devices.
> 
> To work around this problem, initialize hw.max_tx_aggregation_subframes
> to the maximum AMPDU buffer size 0x40.
> 
> Using 0 as default for the bufsize was introduced in commit
> 5dd36bc933e8be84f8369ac64505a2938f9ce036 (mac80211: allow advertising
> correct maximum aggregate size).

So, are you saying the problem with getting 0 in replies is solved by
not sending 0 in requests?

Patch looks fine to me, but it's not clear to me that it's the only
thing needed?

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-08  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-26 10:18 [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: Stop TX BA session if buf_size is zero Helmut Schaa
2011-07-26 10:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Don't use a buf_size=0 in ADDBA requests Helmut Schaa
2011-08-05  8:15   ` Kalle Valo
2011-08-05  8:35     ` Helmut Schaa
2011-08-05  8:54       ` Kalle Valo
2011-08-05  9:46   ` [PATCHv2 " Helmut Schaa
2011-08-08  8:29     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-08-08  8:40       ` Helmut Schaa
2011-08-08  8:46         ` Johannes Berg
2011-08-08  8:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: Stop TX BA session if buf_size is zero Johannes Berg

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