On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:18:18PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > The vendor-supplied driver treats a USB Tx failure as an un-ACKed frame. > I don't see why we shouldn't do the same thing -- hopefully this makes > rate-scaling algorithms behave sanely with the rtl8187 driver. > > Thanks to Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> for suggesting this as an > option. > > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > This is currently untested -- anyone with rtl8187 bored enough to try > it? :-) AFAICT, this doesn't actually trigger -- at least, the device can go into its typical failure mode (no frames ACKed until you force a lower rate) without ever hitting the "assume ACK not received" clause. I'll keep looking at it -- there are a couple of 'secrets' still buried in the vendor driver (if I can stomach to keep looking at it)... John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx of your literate lifestyle. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
