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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:43:52 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: patches for if_iwi and wlan for WEP mode
Message-ID:  <CAJ-Vmo=T4Muzsgafhfq2QLencWdr37-frpQeczn_U4wx5MhwxA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201203072017.44409.bschmidt@freebsd.org>
References:  <20120306.024212.108736612.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> <201203062005.15276.bschmidt@freebsd.org> <CAJ-Vmo=P7LNm4rUpcoUPgerssBkSVifQ7Gdge3=Zps3v77pFhg@mail.gmail.com> <201203072017.44409.bschmidt@freebsd.org>

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On 7 March 2012 11:17, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 March 2012 21:12:55 Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> .. except that the default if_transmit handling breaks fragments. Sigh.
>>
>> So we're going to have to implement if_transmit for all net80211
>> drivers soon and fix fragment handling.
>
> Not saying that you are wrong, it is unrelated to the issue at hand
> though and I'm not even sure it can be fixed just by replacing
> if_transmit(). Anyways, a bug going unnoticed for 3 years or something
> isn't that high on my priority list.

Oh, it's absolutely not a requirement here. It was more a comment that
he didn't need to implement if_transmit just yet in order to fix this
bug, but it's likely a good idea moving forward.

I have recently acquired an iwi(4) NIC so I'll also test this out.
Don't let me stop you though. :)



Adrian



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