Re: [PATCH v2] rtl8xxxu: Use lower tx rates for the ack packet

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Tue Oct 05 2021 - 01:33:27 EST


Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> According to the Realtek propritary driver and the rtw88 driver, the
> tx rates of the ack (includes block ack) are initialized with lower
> tx rates (no HT rates) which is set by the RRSR register value. In
> real cases, ack rate higher than current tx rate could lead to
> difficulty for the receiving end to receive management/control frames.
> The retransmission rate would be higher then expected when the driver
> is acting as receiver and the RSSI is not good.
>
> Cross out higer rates for ack packet before implementing dynamic rrsr
> configuration like the commit 4830872685f8 ("rtw88: add dynamic rrsr
> configuration").
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

7acd723c30c0 rtl8xxxu: Use lower tx rates for the ack packet

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