From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:34520 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933231AbXBESdX (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:33:23 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] cfg80211 and nl80211 From: Johannes Berg To: Jiri Benc Cc: Michael Wu , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <20070205192958.0fef1a88@griffin.suse.cz> References: <20070131013717.GA28076@tuxdriver.com> <200702051245.35452.flamingice@sourmilk.net> <1170697795.3572.32.camel@johannes.berg> <200702051314.21627.flamingice@sourmilk.net> <1170699268.3572.39.camel@johannes.berg> <20070205192958.0fef1a88@griffin.suse.cz> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-l04yzG9LThEHcvIRhQOR" Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:29:49 +0100 Message-Id: <1170700190.3572.41.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-l04yzG9LThEHcvIRhQOR Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 19:29 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote: > No. It's the other way around, when they're reported immediately, they > will be out of order. ieee80211_tx_status is called from the interrupt > handler as the result of the frame being actually sent. Before that, a > frame can sit for an arbitrary long time in the hw queue or not sent at > all. Reporting only frames confirmed by ieee80211_tx_status as > successfully sent at the time the function is called reflects better > what is on the air (it's still not perfect as things like > retransmissions are not caught). Yeah, you're right. Then again, it doesn't matter all that much since if you want exact timing you need a card that never transmits in monitor mode anyway. johannes --=-l04yzG9LThEHcvIRhQOR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBFx3ed/ETPhpq3jKURAnewAJ41aXBAEIcfaJaFLyMns1ITOrarCwCgkZtE mqFfxZ5yJqanb4xWZEiOEMM= =WH3/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-l04yzG9LThEHcvIRhQOR--