netdev - Re: d80211-drivers pull request (week-48)

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Date:	Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:35:07 +0100
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>
Cc:	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>,
	John Linville <linville@...driver.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ulrich Kunitz <kune@...ne-taler.de>
Subject: Re: d80211-drivers pull request (week-48)

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 02:07, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 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?

It does ratecontrol based on that.
Basically: No ACK == failed packet. If too many failures,
lower the rate.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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