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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: allow driver to handle packet-loss
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:13:44 +0200
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On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 12:48 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> Based on consecutive msdu failures, mac80211 triggers CQM packet-loss
> mechanism. Drivers like ath10k that have its own connection
> monitoring
> algorithm, offloaded to firmware for triggering station kickout. In
> case
> of station kickout, driver will report low ack status by mac80211 API
> (ieee80211_report_low_ack).
> 
> This flag will enable the driver to completely rely on firmware
> events
> for station kickout and bypass mac80211 packet loss mechanism.
> 
applied.

johannes