netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: add wireless TX status socket option

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Message-Id: <20111104.175108.472681560571826562.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:51:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add wireless TX status socket option

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:56:36 +0100

 ...
> To get rid of that hack, introduce a real wifi TX
> status option for data frame transmissions.
> 
> This works similar to the existing TX timestamping
> in that it reflects the SKB back to the socket's
> error queue with a SCM_WIFI_STATUS cmsg that has
> an int indicating ACK status (0/1).
 ...
> I'd like to merge this through the wireless tree since
> some new features sort of depend on it. Thoughts?

No objections, feel free to put this into the wireless tree.
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