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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rtl8xxxu: Use lower tx rates for the ack packet
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
In-Reply-To: <20211001040044.1028708-1-chris.chiu@canonical.com>
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To:     Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@canonical.com>
Cc:     Jes.Sorensen@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
        code@reto-schneider.ch, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@canonical.com>
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Date:   Tue,  5 Oct 2021 05:33:22 +0000 (UTC)
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Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@canonical.com> 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@canonical.com>
> Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@gmail.com>

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

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

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