carl9170: Fix tx aggregation problems with some clients
authorChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:43:14 +0000 (13:43 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:45:14 +0000 (15:45 -0400)
commit24047e2c4feb8c126e92cc5bb7a863115c89bd72
treea027a11a04ef9ef53dce7f44eff76e26f20106bc
parent0263aa45293838b514b8af674a03faf040991a90
carl9170: Fix tx aggregation problems with some clients

Some clients seem to rely upon the reception of BlockAckReqs to flush
their rx reorder buffer. In order to fix aggregation for these clients
carl9170 should set IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK to generate a
BlockAckReq if the transmission of an AMPDU subframe fails.

This fixes aggregation problems with Intel 5100 Windows STAs (and maybe
others as well).

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/carl9170.h
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c