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From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net, linville@tuxdriver.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: Send nullfunc frames at lower rate
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:14:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110926111440.GB2946@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317030225-3986-1-git-send-email-rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>

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

      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-26 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-26  9:43 [RFC] mac80211: Send nullfunc frames at lower rate Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-09-26 11:14 ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]

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