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

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Message-ID: <1356871099.4821.16.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:38:19 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@...19freenet.de>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc:	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>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [ 104/173] rt2x00: Dont let mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU
 subframe fails

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.

Ben.

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

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