carl9170: Fix tx aggregation problems with some clients

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Some clients seem to rely upon the reception of BlockAckReqs to flush
their rx reorder buffer. In order to fix aggregation for these clients
carl9170 should set IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK to generate a
BlockAckReq if the transmission of an AMPDU subframe fails.

This fixes aggregation problems with Intel 5100 Windows STAs (and maybe
others as well).

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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Christian Lamparter 2011-03-29 13:43:14 +02:00 • committed by John W. Linville

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drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/carl9170.h

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drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c

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drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c

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