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iwlwifi: mvm: Allow retries for probe responses
authorIlan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:32:52 +0000 (13:32 +0200)
committerLuca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:47:58 +0000 (20:47 +0200)
commit54a0777c11f91063270aeefd4d18503213302f9c
tree4296a01bed4e3ab08ed8225975fbea9ceea3296a
parent48b3f5f98d65360ac192194e3bcd8c584dd6b77f
iwlwifi: mvm: Allow retries for probe responses

When hostapd sends a probe response, it does not request an
acknowledgment on the probe response. This setting is propagated
to the driver and FW from mac80211, and as a result probe responses
are transmitted only once without retries. In congested
environments, this reduces the likelihood for finding the AP.

To overcome this, enable acknowledgment and retries for probe
responses, even in case no acknowledgment is requested. In such
a case the retry limit is set to 3.

Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c