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Subject: Re: [RFC v2] mac80211: add general rate information to Tx status
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> > Actually in spite of the IF there I don't think  it  ever happens that
> > iwlwifi uses tx_status() directly only irqsafe. Does any driver uses
> > tx_status directly anyway?
>
> ath5k does, but I have no idea why.
>

We have separate tasklets for tx/rx (so we can parse descriptrors,
keep buffers/descriptors in sync etc), so we call ieee80211_tx_status
from our tx tasklet.


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