From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Vasanth Thiagarajan <Vasanth.Thiagarajan@Atheros.com>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k/mac80211: disallow fragmentation in ath9k, report to userspace
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:56:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081013105619.GG5965@tesla> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223897706.24954.6.camel@johannes.berg>
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:35:05AM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
> As I've reported, ath9k currently fails utterly when fragmentation
> is enabled. This makes ath9k "support" hardware fragmentation by
> not supporting fragmentation at all to avoid the double-free issue.
> The patch also changes mac80211 to report errors from the driver
> operation to userspace.
>
> That hack in ath9k should be removed once the rate control algorithm
> it has is fixed, and we can at that time consider removing the hw
> fragmentation support entirely since it's not used by any driver.
Thanks.
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Luis
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2008-10-13 11:35 [PATCH] ath9k/mac80211: disallow fragmentation in ath9k, report to userspace Johannes Berg
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