On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > nack. > > I've seen other drivers set just a flag when hardware has a bit field to > signalize that there isn't need to ack the tx packet to be sent, but > don't saw anyone changing retry in tx hw header. Also setting to 0 in > no_ack case looks wrong, for example see ath5k where it even checks for > 0 and returns an error if you try to do this. > > -- > []'s > Herton > IMO the current implementation is even worse - completely disregard NO_ACK, and when a packet that should not be ACKed according to IEEE 802.11:2007 is sent (such as a broadcast), retry repeatedly until timeout. Also, v26.1010 of the vendor driver does exactly what my patch does. -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
