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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
	davem@davemloft.net, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:47:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709221647.45715.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070922144254.GB12907@deine-taler.de>

On Saturday 22 September 2007, Ulrich Kunitz wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 22 September 2007 11:48:00 Ulrich Kunitz wrote:
> > > A real high-quality driver will require Johannes' proposed
> > > mac80211 driver interface changes to be merged and TX
> > > confirmations handled in a way, that the semantics can really be
> > > supported by the driver. (Michael Buesh's patch is taping over the
> > > issue.)
> > 
> > No it is not. It is fixing the issue. It fixes the following issues:
> 
> > * You must ignore the Txstat-requested bit in the driver.
> 
> If that is really the case the flag should be removed from
> mac80211. There is no way for somebody looking at the code to know
> this.

It is used internally in mac80211.

> > * You must report bad frames with the excessive_retries set.
> 
> All bad frames or only those with actual excessive retries? Your patch
> set the excessive_retries flag for packets that couldn't be
> transmitted to the device because of an USB error. If the flag
> should be set for all kinds of errors it should be renamed.

Well, there is no better flag to set, currently.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-22 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-19 18:10 Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6 John W. Linville
2007-09-19 18:59 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 19:23   ` Michael Buesch
2007-09-19 19:56     ` David Miller
2007-09-19 20:12       ` David Miller
2007-09-19 22:08 ` Daniel Drake
2007-09-19 22:14   ` David Miller
2007-09-19 22:27     ` Daniel Drake
2007-09-19 22:32       ` David Miller
2007-09-20 13:47   ` John W. Linville
2007-09-20 14:28     ` Daniel Drake
2007-09-20 16:37       ` Larry Finger
2007-09-20 16:40         ` Johannes Berg
2007-09-22  9:48     ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-09-22 12:11       ` Michael Buesch
2007-09-22 14:42         ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-09-22 14:47           ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-09-19 22:12 ` Daniel Drake
2007-09-20 13:28   ` John W. Linville

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