On Tue, 2018-09-25 at 16:12 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > While testing out some other issue, I noticed that my ath10k system creates > several hundred null-data probes when I abruptly down the AP the station > is connected to. > > I guess this is because I use the mac80211 stack to handle the probes, and > the firmware then retries each mac80211 probe many times. > > So, in the case where mac80211 is sending a null-data probe, is the assumption > that the driver will try each frame exactly once? Not really, it should be treated like any other management frame. > Or is several hundred frames expected? I'm guessing the former, but before I go > hacking firmware, I thought I would ask... Certainly not several hundred, but maybe a dozen? I think iwlwifi uses 16, and minstrel would set up max_rate_tries, which drivers set to somewhere between 1 and 18? One seems s a bit low, mt76? johannes
