Re: tx_status reporting of RTS/CTS frames

[Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>]

Hi,

> > Than this is a problem in multiple mac80211 drivers, since rt2x00 previously
> > did filter out rts and cts frames when reporting txdone events to mac80211
> > and upon request on the linux-wireless list that filter was disabled, because
> > the other drivers didn't filter the RTS/CTS frames so for consistent behavior
> > the filter was removed from rt2x00.
> 
> Huh? Seriously? I can't remember any such thing. It doesn't really make
> sense because most hw will handle rts/cts fully transparently and not
> give you status notification for it. As for showing received rts/cts on
> monitor, sure, but txdone for sent rts/cts isn't done by any driver I'm
> aware of.

I just checked, only rt2x00 and b43 call the rts/cts functions for ieee80211.
For b43 seems to report the tx status for the rts/cts frames as well.

I have found the 2 emails that introduced and later reverted the behavior from rt2x00:
[PATCH 16/26] rt2x00: Correctly handle RTS frames
[PATCH 7/24] RT2x00: Add RTS frame creation
They are dated from July 2006, so they were quite old actually :S

Anyway, I have no objects against not report those frames to mac80211,
so if mac80211 doesn't want those frames reported rt2x00 can filter them out. :)

Ivo