From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.177]:56976 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750874AbYALMrb (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:47:31 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so2390414wah.23 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:47:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1ba2fa240801120447l6b8475c3secff77ccb203852a@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080112_124734_087491_31B2F665) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:47:29 +0200 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "Johannes Berg" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 07/10] mac80211: A-MPDU Tx change tx_status to support Block Ack data Cc: "Ron Rindjunsky" , linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, flamingice@sourmilk.net, yi.zhu@intel.com In-Reply-To: <-2543242200241674408@unknownmsgid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <11999857423156-git-send-email-ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> <11999857502772-git-send-email-ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> <1200070609.3861.208.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240801120343v2e60acc8kc56469106cf56df1@mail.gmail.com> <-2543242200241674408@unknownmsgid> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > This actually represents Block Ack frame. This is bitmap of received > > and failed frames in the aggregation. > > Ok so each bit just represents "this frame of the block ack was received"? I would rather word it as 'the 'frame of this aggregation was received/acked.' > Might be worth elaborating the comment a bit. Absolutely > >> Broadcom hardware is able to give intermediate status notifications, > >> would there be any use in those? > > > > Can you explain? > > Actually, I don't really know what the microcode there provides. I guess > it tells you something like "I sent this frame, no TX errors occurred" or > so... Is this response to aggregation or just general response to TX? Thanks Tomas