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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:15:10 -0700
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Subject: Re: mac80211 and broadcast frames
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: David Ross <dave@antacs.com>,
	Valentin Manea <linux-wireless@mrs.ro>,
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:48 AM, John W. Linville<linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:10:52PM +1000, David Ross wrote:
>> Actually it is required to be a mutual BASIC rate (not extended rates) -
>> not necessarily the "lowest possible" - David.
>
> True, but FWIW I think all of our rate scaling algorithms choose the
> lowest rate.

And then iwlwifi and ath9k have their own rate control algo, and at
least ath9k uses the lowest valid rate IIRC.

  Luis