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Re: [PATCH] ath5k: Fix short and long retry configuration

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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Bruno Randolf <br1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My patch for ath5k is only one part of the story. It sets the retry limits in
> HW. Most of these values only affect after how many retries the contention
> window is reset to cw_min, not the actual number of retries (please check the
> register documentation in my patch). The total number of retries for a frame
> are the values we put into the TX descriptor - coming from the rate control
> module (minstrel).

Ah, thanks for the clarification.  We could of course mess with the MRR
setup in ->tx inside the driver, but it would be better to fix it there.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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