From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:13607 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754656AbYJMR41 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:56:27 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:56:27 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:56:19 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Johannes Berg CC: John Linville , linux-wireless , Vasanth Thiagarajan , "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k/mac80211: disallow fragmentation in ath9k, report to userspace Message-ID: <20081013105619.GG5965@tesla> (sfid-20081013_195631_791132_F39F77D9) References: <1223897706.24954.6.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <1223897706.24954.6.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Luis