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Commit c6e13327 authored by Karl Beldan's avatar Karl Beldan Committed by Johannes Berg
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mac80211: send {ADD,DEL}BA on AC_VO like other mgmt frames, as per spec

ATM, {ADD,DEL}BA and BAR frames are sent on the AC matching the TID of
the BA parameters. In the discussion [1] about this patch, Johannes
recalled that it fixed some races with the DELBA and indeed this
behavior was introduced in [2].
While [2] is right for the BARs, the part queueing the {ADD,DEL}BAs on
their BA params TID AC violates the spec and is more a workaround for
some drivers. Helmut expressed some concerns wrt such drivers, in
particular DELBAs in rt2x00.

ATM, DELBAs are sent after a driver has called (hence "purposely")
ieee80211_start_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe and Johannes and Emmanuel gave some
details wrt intentions behind the split of the IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_STOP_*
given to the driver ampdu_action supposed to call this function, which
could prove handy to people trying to do the right thing in faulty
drivers (if their fw/hw don't get in their way).

[1] http://mid.gmane.org/1390391564-18481-1-git-send-email-karl.beldan@gmail.com


[2] Commit: cf6bb79a ("mac80211: Use appropriate TID for sending BAR, ADDBA and DELBA frames")

Signed-off-by: default avatarKarl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 0037db63
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