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| author | Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> | 2011-10-21 18:38:56 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-11-02 15:23:12 -0400 |
| commit | 94d55d62bd757611f07a9122e5e07ce929b8d38d (patch) | |
| tree | dd6977b6c79f57d8601d633aa2466315d83a572e /drivers | |
| parent | fd26981cf53ee91951a92fae53416e4ce639164c (diff) | |
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carl9170: fix AMPDU TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS handling
Previously the driver did not care if TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS
was set on aggregated frames or not and it would silently
drop successfully sent frames if possible [much like:
"no news is good news!"].
But, TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS was invented for a reason and
no tx status report should ever be dropped if it is set.
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c index d20946939cd8..59472e1605cd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c @@ -296,7 +296,8 @@ static void carl9170_tx_release(struct kref *ref) super = (void *)skb->data; txinfo->status.ampdu_len = super->s.rix; txinfo->status.ampdu_ack_len = super->s.cnt; - } else if (txinfo->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK) { + } else if ((txinfo->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK) && + !(txinfo->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS)) { /* * drop redundant tx_status reports: * @@ -308,15 +309,17 @@ static void carl9170_tx_release(struct kref *ref) * * 3. minstrel_ht is picky, it only accepts * reports of frames with the TX_STATUS_AMPDU flag. + * + * 4. mac80211 is not particularly interested in + * feedback either [CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS not set] */ dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); return; } else { /* - * Frame has failed, but we want to keep it in - * case it was lost due to a power-state - * transition. + * Either the frame transmission has failed or + * mac80211 requested tx status. */ } } |