Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k, multiple stations, and AMPDUs

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 09/21/2010 05:19 AM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2010-09-21 2:08 PM, Ben Greear wrote:

>> If you have any more details on this, please let me know.  I'm going to
>> attempt to fix it...I certainly have a good test case :)
> ath_tx_complete_aggr completes an A-MPDU frame, which typically triggers
> the release of the next A-MPDU to the hw queue.
> To keep track of the Block ACK window, it needs to look up the TID, for
> which it needs a STA pointer. At that level, the driver typically
> doesn't have access to the vif.
>
> It might be possible to fix this by adding another sta lookup helper
> function in mac80211 that takes another address argument for the BSSID,
> so that it can get the sta entry for the correct vif. I don't know if
> Johannes wants something like that though.

Could we just poke a pointer to the STA into the ath_buf structure?

Thanks,
Ben

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