From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luis R. Rodriguez Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:29:08 -0700 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Disabling Link-Layer Acks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20091002212908.GD9121@mosca> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:50:47AM -0700, Matt Tierney wrote: > This is bumping an old question 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