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Cleanup AMPDU handling:

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Cleanup AMPDU handling:

For receive:
o explicitly tag rx frames w/ M_AMPDU instead of passing frames through

the reorder processing according to the node having HT and the frame
being QoS data

o relax ieee80211_ampdu_reorder asserts to allow any frame to be passed

in, unsuitable frames are returned to the caller for normal processing;
this permits drivers that cannot inspect the PLCP to mark all data
frames as potential ampdu candidates with only a small penalty

o add M_AMPDU_MPDU to identify frames resubmitted from the reorder q

For transmit:
o tag aggregation candidates with M_AMPDU_MPDU
o fix the QoS ack policy set in ampdu subframes; we only support immediate

BA streams which should be marked for "normal ack" to get implicit block
ack behaviour; interestingly certain vendor parts BA'd frames with the
11e BA ack policy set

o do not assign a sequence # to aggregation candidates; this must be done

when frames are submitted for transmit (NB: this can/will be handled
better when aggregation is pulled up to net80211)

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samAuthored on Sep 21 2008, 11:00 PM
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rGb69b7fe7589c: Always update ic_lastnonht so we track overlapping legacy bss
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