[ath9k-devel] Disabling Link-Layer Acks

[Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:50:47AM -0700, Matt Tierney wrote:
> This is bumping an old question <http://www.mail-archive.com/ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org/msg00016.html> but I was wondering if there was a simple (quick and dirty, if need be) way to disable link-layer acks.
> 
> I think I found the right place to do this in the xmit.c code, under the setup_tx_flags function:
> 
>         if (tx_info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK)
>                 flags |= ATH9K_TXDESC_NOACK;
> 
> I expect that I would just need to comment out the first line with the if-condition.
> 
> Is this a correct way to handle disabling link-layer acks for now?

Not sure, I'd be checking the code just as you are but I will not another
thing you may want to look at also is the extremely well documented
ath_hw_setbssidmask():

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/wireless/ath/hw.c;h=ecc9eb01f4fa12bddfd7ab044c79847bfe643c84;hb=HEAD

  Luis