On Monday 05 February 2007 19:07, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > Hi, > > > > > > Not all hardware are capable of generating their own RTS frames. > > > > > This patch will add support for creating the RTS frame in software, > > > > > when the driver requests this through the flag > > > > > IEEE80211_HW_SOFTWARE_RTS > > > > > > > > It seems this is not the ideal solution. Most of drivers needing > > > > software RTS would need to remember the RTS frame somewhere (as they > > > > need to pass it together with the actual frame). > > > > > > Well in case of rt2x00 (I am not sure which other drivers also need > > > software RTS) > > > the rts packet is just inserted inside the packet ring and is treated as > > > a regular > > > packet/fragment that has just been inserted by the driver. > > > > > > This patch just adds this additional packet just before the real packet, > > > and in case > > > the real packet could not be send the rts packet is stored in the > > > ieee80211_tx_stored_packet structure to be send later. > > > > Ok, I see. But this is not going to work with bcm43xx. > > > > I also sent a fix for rt2x00 to work with my patchset. > > Did you already send that patchset to the netdev list? > Because I haven't seen a patch series about rts for d80211 yet.
No, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The new rt2500usb and rt73usb packet ring handling no longer use a DMA buffer > but instead send the sk_buffer->data pointer to the USB layer. > The solution as suggested by Jiri could be handled by making sure the rts > allocated > buffer will also have a tx header room as set in the tx_header_room field. > But I am not > sure if that would be a better solution than putting the rts packet in a > sk_buffer that is being > send out just before the real packet... In my patchset you can put it into anything you like. I put it into an skb. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
