From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
stable@kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/4 2.6.33.y] mac80211: explicitly disable/enable QoS
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:15:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1280272525.13192.67.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100727224008.GM14257@kroah.com>
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On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 15:40 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > commit e1b3ec1a2a336c328c336cfa5485a5f0484cc90d upstream.
> >
> > Add interface to disable/enable QoS (aka WMM or WME). Currently drivers
> > enable it explicitly when ->conf_tx method is called, and newer disable.
> > Disabling is needed for some APs, which do not support QoS, such
> > we should send QoS frames to them.
>
> Why is this a patch for a -stable tree? It looks like it adds a new api
> for a new feature, right?
[...]
It extends the interface between the 802.11 stack and drivers so that
drivers can avoid sending QoS frames to APs that don't support them.
There is no new interface to userland. My understanding is that iwlwifi
becomes unable to communicate with non-QoS-capable APs after having once
associated with a QoS-capable AP, without this and the following change
in iwlwifi itself.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-27 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-07 10:00 [PATCH 1/4 2.6.33.y] mac80211: explicitly disable/enable QoS Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-06-07 10:00 ` [PATCH 2/4 2.6.33.y] iwlwifi: manage QoS by mac stack Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-06-07 10:00 ` [PATCH 3/4 2.6.33.y] mac80211: do not wip out old supported rates Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-06-07 10:00 ` [PATCH 4/4 2.6.33.y] mac80211: fix supported rates IE if AP doesn't give us it's rates Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-07-27 22:40 ` [stable] [PATCH 1/4 2.6.33.y] mac80211: explicitly disable/enable QoS Greg KH
2010-07-27 23:15 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-07-27 23:54 ` Greg KH
2010-07-28 6:50 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-07-29 21:48 ` Greg KH
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