Return-path: Received: from nbd.name ([88.198.39.176]:51404 "EHLO ds10.mine.nu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933580AbZGPXX3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:23:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4A5FB662.5070500@openwrt.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:23:14 +0200 From: Felix Fietkau MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: johannes@sipsolutions.net, linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, Zhu Yi , Reinette Chatre , ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Gabor Juhos , Derek Smithies , Chittajit Mitra Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/21] mac80211: add helper for management / no-ack frame rate decision References: <1247763941-21396-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> In-Reply-To: <1247763941-21396-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > All current rate control algorithms agree to send management and no-ack > frames at the lowest rate. They also agree to do this when sta > and the private rate control data is NULL. We add a hlper to mac80211 > for this and simplify the rate control algorithm code. > > Developers wishing to make enhancements to rate control algorithms > are for broadcast/multicast can opt to not use this in their > gate_rate() mac80211 callback. > > Cc: Zhu Yi > Cc: Reinette Chatre > Cc: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: Gabor Juhos > Cc: Felix Fietkau > Cc: Derek Smithies > Cc: Chittajit Mitra > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez > --- > drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c | 14 +------------ > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-rs.c | 13 ++--------- > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c | 7 +----- > include/net/mac80211.h | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > net/mac80211/rate.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c | 22 +-------------------- > net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c | 11 +--------- > 7 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-) Acked-by: Felix Fietkau