Return-path: Received: from smtp.rutgers.edu ([128.6.72.243]:15773 "EHLO annwn14.rutgers.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757306AbXEJP46 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 11:56:58 -0400 From: Michael Wu To: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] mac80211: Add support for SIOCGIWRATE ioctl to provide rate information Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:56:08 -0400 Cc: Jiri Benc , Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <463a8a92.jFmmjY4cDnfJeisJ%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <200705100016.45876.flamingice@sourmilk.net> <46433293.9010002@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: <46433293.9010002@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1607506.m393BZbVNT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Message-Id: <200705101156.12588.flamingice@sourmilk.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --nextPart1607506.m393BZbVNT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 10 May 2007 10:56, Larry Finger wrote: > Why has the review of this patch been so strung out? Everything you comme= nt > on here was in versions 1 & 2, but not mentioned in any review of those > versions. > Sorry, I've been busy. I'm pretty sure these issues are the last ones. > As to the usefulness of this function, I am testing in infrastructure, not > ad-hoc, mode, and the output matches the average rate in the log files if > debugging is enabled. If the address in u.sta.bssid is not correct, which > address should I be using? I still maintain that the user is entitled to > know the transmission rate from user space even if debugging is turned of= f, > and that this function is needed. > I didn't say infrastructure wasn't gonna work. That's the one that should=20 work. However, adhoc probably won't. =2DMichael Wu --nextPart1607506.m393BZbVNT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGQ0CcT3Oqt9AH4aERAsJPAJ9xA452YANgSd+e2mUQ5k0AXWxrLgCgkdl7 pGnklOgAJ8i8MCTROKM5Pcw= =Ng8Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1607506.m393BZbVNT-- -: To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org: More majordomo info at http: //vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html