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Re: [RFC] mac80211: Send nullfunc frames at lower rate

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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 03:13:45PM +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> Recently mac80211 was changed to send nullfunc instead of probe
> request for connection monitoring. These nullfunc data frames
> are being sent at higer rates and also as aggregated ones. This
> could probably delays the nullfunc_ack so the connection is getting
> disconnected as max retries reached. In order to improve the
> connectivity send the nullfunc at lower rate.

We send nullfunc frames for connection monitoring also on older
kernels if hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS. I think
this is -stable fix.

Perhaps also rc_no_data_or_no_ack name should be changed to
something more appropriate.

Stanislaw
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