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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: allow driver to handle packet-loss mechanism
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>,
        linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:06:08 +0200
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> > The way you describe this it sounds like somehow you'll be
> > reporting the indication to userspace from the driver; but you do
> > not, and cannot do that. The description seems thus misleading?
> > 
> Sorry for confusion.. The idea is that driver will report low ack
> status by ieee80211_report_low_ack and if driver wants to completely
> rely on firmware algorithm, then this flag will be used to bypass
> mac80211 packet loss mechanism. does it make sense?

Oh, so you *can* already do that. Please just say that in the commit
message.

johannes