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From: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
To: Sujith <m.sujith@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Subject: Re: ath9k fragmentation
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:31:20 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18873.63152.836875.231557@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18873.48952.353253.595670@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

Sujith wrote:
> Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Just a quick note -- was testing fragmentation and happened to use ath9k
> > as the test station, this failed utterly, it sent increasing sequence
> > numbers and no fragment number.
> 
> Sequence number handling is pretty much borked in ath9k.
> There is a comment in assign_aggr_tid_seqno@xmit.c - and it doesn't make much sense.
> Removing all crappy code in ath9k dealing with this and leaving everything
> to mac80211 would certainly be the better option, but we still have to figure
> out how to manage BA windows.
> 

And a quick hack to fix this would be to not increment the internal sequence
number when the frame is fragmented. But that is what it would be, a hack. :)

Sujith

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-13  6:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-12 18:10 ath9k fragmentation Johannes Berg
2009-03-13  2:04 ` Sujith
2009-03-13  6:01   ` Sujith [this message]
2009-03-13  9:03   ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-13 10:48     ` Sujith
2009-03-13 10:56       ` Johannes Berg

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