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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:07:32 -0500
From: Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>
To: Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>
CC: John Linville <linville@...driver.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Ulrich Kunitz <kune@...ne-taler.de>
Subject: Re: d80211-drivers pull request (week-48)
Michael Wu wrote:
> zd1211rw-d80211: Use ieee80211_tx_status
I've thought some more about this and I'm not so sure that this is the
right approach.
Can't devicescape be taught that the ZD1211 handles retries in hardware
and the stack doesn't need to worry about it?
What does devicescape do in response to not getting an ack? Does it
retransmit? If that is all then it doesn't need to be at stack level,
since the hardware handles that on its own, and we can configure that to
behave the same way as the stack would.
I think I remember reading that devicescape uses failed transmission
rate in the rate adjustment calculations. Even without this racy ack
system we can still achieve that - the device tells us every time it
retries a transmit, and then it sends a special interrupt at the end
saying that all retries failed.
Daniel
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