Re: Does the driver directly map TOS/DSCPtags toUser Priority into QoS Control field?

Zhu Yi <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:47:12 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel
Message-ID <1235094432.6354.408.camel@debian>
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 19:15 +0800, Alex Chpenst wrote:
> Is User Priority field within the QoS Control field at the MAC layer
> is set then by the firmware or by the ipw2200 driver?

For 2200, it is the firmware. See ipw_qos_set_tx_queue_command(), the
driver only sets the NO_ACK field for qos_ctrl. But for softmac drivers
(i.e. iwlwifi), it is done by mac80211.

Thanks,
-yi


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