Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:62621 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932817AbZGPRZr (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:25:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/21] mac80211: add helper for management / no-ack frame rate decision From: reinette chatre To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: "johannes@sipsolutions.net" , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" , "Zhu, Yi" , "ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , Gabor Juhos , Felix Fietkau , Derek Smithies , Chittajit Mitra In-Reply-To: <1247763941-21396-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> References: <1247763941-21396-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:25:47 -0700 Message-Id: <1247765147.17896.2284.camel@rc-desk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:05 -0700, 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 > --- For the iwlwifi bits ... Acked-by: Reinette Chatre Thank you Reinette