linux-kernel - Re: [ 104/173] rt2x00: Dont let mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU subframe fails

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Date:	Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:42:37 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@...19freenet.de>
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@...glemail.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [ 104/173] rt2x00: Dont let mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU
 subframe fails

On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 13:38 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 09:04 +0100, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> > Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > 3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > From: Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@...19freenet.de>
> > > 
> > > commit be03d4a45c09ee5100d3aaaedd087f19bc20d01f upstream.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > This patch is a workaround for
> > 
> > mac80211: retry sending failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down
> > aggr (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg76379.html -
> > f0425beda4d404a6e751439b562100b902ba9c98)
> > See:
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/83297/focus=83304
> > 
> > 
> > Meanwhile there was a bug report complaining about problems with
> > be03d4a45 when used as STA:
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.rt2x00.user/1257
> > You can find there a few other workaround proposals.
> [...]
> 
> OK, I'll drop this for now.  Once this is sorted out, please send to
> stable a complete list of fixes that are needed.

To be clear, I have all of these in the queue:

be03d4a45c09 rt2x00: Don't let mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU subframe fails
5b632fe85ec8 mac80211: introduce IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAIL
ab9d6e4ffe19 Revert: "rt2x00: Don't let mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU subframe fails"

and I'm intending to drop/defer them all.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

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