From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexandre Becholey <alexandre@shockfish.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IEEE80211 Acknowledgement
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:32:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241451174.8683.48.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905041729.13805.IvDoorn@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 17:29 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just as side information for other readers:
>
> Alexandre is looking into the problem of rt2500usb/rt73usb and
> possibly other USB drivers, that they cannot report the ACK status
> of frames to mac80211 which is problematic for hostapd.
I realise that this probably doesn't help and is tangential to the
question being asked, but I do not think processing ACK frames in
software is possible for this, since the software does not know which
frame was transmitted, due to four queues being used, and retries etc.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 15:16 IEEE80211 Acknowledgement Alexandre Becholey
2009-05-04 15:29 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-05-04 15:32 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-05-04 16:35 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-05-04 16:39 ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-04 16:55 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-05-04 17:02 ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-04 17:05 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-05-05 7:44 ` Alexandre Becholey
2009-05-05 8:34 ` Ivo van Doorn
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