Re: [RFC] mac80211: Add support for Tx-AMSDU viz debugfs.

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 13:24 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 16:18 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> >
> >> > But whats the use of sending an AMSDU if we are not connected?
> >> > First check in the code is to check for a connection.
> >> I mentioned cooked monitor because putting the hw in monitor mode may
> >> not always be desirable, and cooked monitor bypasses that.
> >
> > You can pass "flags none" on the iw command line and it shouldn't change
> > much then, but yeah, still might do a few other things. Anyway cooked
> > should work fine.
> 
> Even in the cooked monitor case, the setting of qos_header is done
> in the ieee80211_xmit(), so we still need to have some flag to know
> if its an AMSDU/Not based, even if we set the bit in the user space
> this will overwrite that.

You should be able to patch this very easily to preserve the A-MSDU bit,
which won't matter in the normal case where it's always cleared.

johannes