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

From: Michael Buesch <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:35:07 +0100

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.