[ath9k-devel] Disabling Link-Layer Acks

[Valentin Manea <atheros@mrs.ro>]

Thanks for your answer.
I did some tests and setting the diag bit also disables BlockAck being 
sent in HT mode.

Best Regards,
Valentin

On 10/07/2009 08:11 PM, Ranga Rao Ravuri wrote:
> You cannot disable ACK-rx, as mentioned here, setting DIAG bit should help
> *not* sending ACK
> ~ R
>
>
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Valentin Manea wrote:
>
>    
>>
>> 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
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