[ath9k-devel] Disabling Link-Layer Acks

[Valentin Manea <atheros@mrs.ro>]

On 10/07/2009 09:12 AM, Sujith wrote:
> 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?
>>      
> No. That flag is used to indicate whether we should
> expect an ACK for the frame being sent.
>
> The correct way would be to set AR_DIAG_ACK_DIS in AR_DIAG_SW (reg.h)
>    
Hi Sujit,

   As I'm interested in this, I was wondering if setting this bit also 
disables sending the BlockAcks?


Thanks