Ack, Net80211 & ath

Monthadar Al Jaberi monthadar at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 10:46:41 UTC 2011


Hi,

How is ack frames being handled by the net80211? I guess the driver
(or maybe hardware) takes care of resending, but what happens if it
max number of retries is reached? How is net8011 notified?

There is ieee80211_add_callback that I think should be used for that,
but it is only used by managment frames of type
IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_ASSOC_REQ, IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_REASSOC_REQ and
IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_AUTH (in station mode) and one for HT code.

What about the others? I guess the hardware only keeps stat counters
for failures....

br,

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//Monthadar Al Jaberi


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