rtl8187: Change rate-control feedback

The driver for the RTL8187L chips returns IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK for all
packets, even if the maximum number of retries was exhausted. In addition
it fails to setup max_rates in the ieee80211_hw struct, This behavior
may be responsible for the problems noted in Bug 14168. As the bug is very
old, testers have not been found, and I do not have the case where the
indicated signal is less than -70 dBm.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/rtl8187.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/rtl8187.h
index 0d7b1423f77b..f1cc90751dbf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/rtl8187.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/rtl8187.h
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
 #define RFKILL_MASK_8187_89_97  0x2
 #define RFKILL_MASK_8198        0x4
 
+#define RETRY_COUNT             7
+
 struct rtl8187_rx_info {
         struct urb *urb;
         struct ieee80211_hw *dev;