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Hi,

Yup, you're right. net80211 doesn't get notification of it by default.

What do you need it for?


Adrian

On 27 July 2011 18:23, Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How is ack frames being handled by the net80211? I guess the driver
> (or maybe hardware) takes care of resending, but what happens if it
> max number of retries is reached? How is net8011 notified?
>
> There is ieee80211_add_callback that I think should be used for that,
> but it is only used by managment frames of type
> IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_ASSOC_REQ, IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_REASSOC_REQ and
> IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_AUTH (in station mode) and one for HT code.
>
> What about the others? I guess the hardware only keeps stat counters
> for failures....
>
> br,
>
> --
> //Monthadar Al Jaberi
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