On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Arnd Hannemann <hannem...@nets.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > > is there any reason the packet is dropped and "NETDEV_TX_OK" is returned, > in this case? > Seems pretty stupid to me, because now we are randomly dropping > packets before kernel queuing (qdisc etc) can handle them, > or am I missing something?
Yes, there is a good reason (there are no buffers for the hardware to play with). Actually mac80211 tx is never supposed to return anything but TX_OK. Try this patch (it needs work which is why it's not upstream yet): http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/56785/ -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
