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Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: Re-enable aggregation
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Johannes Berg wrote:
> We have this "ampdu_ack_map" parameter in the TX status which could be
> set by the driver. But that assumes we only want a single TX status for
> all A-MPDU frames, do we really? Or do we want to split them up and
> handle it all in mac80211?

I wasn't aware of this parameter at all. Looks useful.

Atheros HW reports the Block Ack bitmap of the entire aggregate.
So passing that up to mac80211, and letting mac80211 handle retransmissions would work.
I am not sure about Intel.

Sujith