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    mac80211: fix aggregation to not require queue stop · cd8ffc80
    Johannes Berg authored
    
    
    Instead of stopping the entire AC queue when enabling aggregation
    (which was only done for hardware with aggregation queues) buffer
    the packets for each station, and release them to the pending skb
    queue once aggregation is turned on successfully.
    
    We get a little more code, but it becomes conceptually simpler and
    we can remove the entire virtual queue mechanism from mac80211 in
    a follow-up patch.
    
    This changes how mac80211 behaves towards drivers that support
    aggregation but have no hardware queues -- those drivers will now
    not be handed packets while the aggregation session is being
    established, but only after it has been fully established.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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