On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:38:06AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ath9k currently forces hw->max_rate_tries to 4 to work around rate > > control inefficiencies. This has some negative side effects, such as > > rate_control_send_low also using a maximum of 4 tries, which could > > negatively affect reliability of unicast management frames. > > This patch pushes the retry limit to the rate control instead, and > > allows it to use more tries on the last stage to prevent unnecessary > > packet loss. > > If this is not merged yet and if its not too much trouble, would you > mind splitting this into two separate patches, one which increases the > MRR segment retry count, and the other which does what the current > commit log says? Reason is increasing the MRR segment retry count > might be useful as a cherry pick for older kernels. It's already merged... -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
