[Madwifi-devel] backoff disable

[Allen M. <aklmiu@MIT.EDU>]

I wish to know the exact behavior of the TXQ_FLAG_BACKOFF_DISABLE mask.  
In particular,

i) does enabling this flag disable carrier-sense (if not, is there 
another way to disable CS for diagnostic purposes)?
ii) what is the minimum idle time between successive transmission?  Is 
it SIFS or DIFS or something else like CWmin?

Finally, does the hal ever "silently" drop any tx packet (in particular, 
broadcast data packets) without indication (e.g. via the tx status bit)?

Allen.