mac80211: Fix handling of retry count of NO_ACK frames in PID

Make PID check for IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK instead of
is_multicast_ether_addr when determining whether to use the lowest
rate, and set the retry count to 0 (total try count = 1) if
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK is set.

Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
index b16801cde06f41825b6f0db7fd2f4188ebdbcbf8..2b33e3a7ee7d4650aba414f148ca41070b33e2e3 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
@@ -289,13 +289,15 @@ rate_control_pid_get_rate(void *priv, struct ieee80211_sta *sta,
                info->control.rates[0].count =
                        txrc->hw->conf.short_frame_max_tx_count;
 
-       /* Send management frames and broadcast/multicast data using lowest
-        * rate. */
+       /* Send management frames and NO_ACK data using lowest rate. */
        fc = le16_to_cpu(hdr->frame_control);
        if (!sta || !spinfo ||
            (fc & IEEE80211_FCTL_FTYPE) != IEEE80211_FTYPE_DATA ||
-           is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1)) {
+           info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK) {
                info->control.rates[0].idx = rate_lowest_index(sband, sta);
+               if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK)
+                       info->control.rates[0].count = 1;
+
                return;
        }