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Re: [PATCH 18/18] wl1251: disable retry and ACK policy for injected packets

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Am 2011-01-31 17:04, schrieb Kalle Valo:
> GÃbor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:11 PM, David Gnedt <david.gnedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Set the retry limit to 0 and disable the ACK policy for injected
>>> packets.
>>
>> Unfortunately this is not the right thing to do - something like this
>> should be done in mac80211, but triggered by radiotap (sometimes, it
>> makes sense to inject packets and expect ACKs). See the list for
>> earlier discussions about the TX Flags field, and
>> patches.aircrack-ng.org for a proof-of-concept implementation.
> 
> Agreed. Again I prefer the less-logic-in-the-driver philosophy.

Yeah, you are right. I will remove the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED check, but I
think the rate class setting for IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK frames is still needed,
as my testing showed that the ack_policy setting is not sufficient to disable
retries.
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