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)
commit8c739d8d7935e87bf68a0f8cefa6a947f787d642
tree4296a01bed4e3ab08ed8225975fbea9ceea3296a
parentcad7eb754dbd8e921e481b0a41ee0596016afa2f
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