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Subject: Re: wmm admission control in mac80211
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 06:22 +0000, Soumik Das wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the current driver operation (ieee80211_ops)  there is no provision for configuring medium time. But this would be essential for admission control.
> 
> Will it be better to add a new (optional) operation in ieee80211 or can we add a new field in ieee80211_tx_queue_params?

It seems a new TX queue field would be better, but keep in mind that not
all drivers/devices will support it.

johannes