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Commit 89c7d788 authored by Alexander Aring's avatar Alexander Aring Committed by Marcel Holtmann
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mac802154: change frame_retries behaviour



This patch changes the default minimum value of frame_retries to 0 and
changes the frame_retries default value to 3 which is also 802.15.4
default.

We don't use the frame_retries "-1" value as indicator for no-aret mode
anymore, instead we checking on the ack request bit inside the 802.15.4
frame control field. This allows a acknowledge handling per frame. This
checking is done by transceiver or inside xmit callback of driver layer.

If a transceiver doesn't support ARET handling the transmit
functionality ignores ack frames then, which isn't well but should not
effect anything of current functionality.

Reviewed-by: default avatarStefan Schmidt <stefan@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
parent 91f02b3d
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