Re: [RFC] rtl8187: Do not wait for an ACK when IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK is set

["Stefanik Gábor" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
<herton@mandriva.com.br> wrote:
>
> nack.
>
> I've seen other drivers set just a flag when hardware has a bit field to
> signalize that there isn't need to ack the tx packet to be sent, but
> don't saw anyone changing retry in tx hw header. Also setting to 0 in
> no_ack case looks wrong, for example see ath5k where it even checks for
> 0 and returns an error if you try to do this.
>
> --
> []'s
> Herton
>

IMO the current implementation is even worse - completely disregard
NO_ACK, and when a packet that should not be ACKed according to IEEE
802.11:2007 is sent (such as a broadcast), retry repeatedly until
timeout.
Also, v26.1010 of the vendor driver does exactly what my patch does.

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