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Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: Add support for Tx-AMSDU viz debugfs.
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Krishna Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com>,
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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:17:33 +0100
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On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 15:03 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:

> > But the problem is every time we have to test the Rx-AMSDU
> > which is mandatory for WFA 802.11n cert, we need to procure a adapter
> > which supports it, which is difficult. Thats the scenario we have faced
> > which lead us to work on this.With this feature in place we can use
> > any opensource adapter and driver for that purpose.
> > 
> > Again, Its a trade off between stability and usability :-)
> How about injecting A-MSDU packets via cooked monitor mode or nl80211
> frame tx and thus shifting the debug-only code into userspace?

nl80211 won't work -- no support for data frames (and I'd rather not add
it), but monitor mode (why cooked?) seems fine.

johannes