Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:39114 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751003AbZKZUPl (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:15:41 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] API for setting ACK timeout From: Johannes Berg To: 8an@praha12.net Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200911262113.10847.8an@praha12.net> References: <200911261826.08576.8an@praha12.net> <200911262015.03106.8an@praha12.net> <1259263540.24540.9.camel@johannes.local> <200911262113.10847.8an@praha12.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Nv39YR5TpVOhKwOxX7hw" Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:15:44 +0100 Message-ID: <1259266544.5428.0.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-Nv39YR5TpVOhKwOxX7hw Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 21:13 +0100, Luk=C3=A1=C5=A1 Turek wrote: > On 26.11.2009 20:25 Johannes Berg wrote: > > My standard reference was obviously crap -- let's see, 7.3.2.9 is > > better. > Yes, I found the table. And now I also noticed the real difference: the s= lot=20 > time according to the standard rises in a step of three (which means ACK=20 > timeout will rise in a step of six). It's quite significant loss of=20 > precision, but it probably shouldn't make much difference in throughput. It only affects lost packets anyway, no? > Anyway, this solutions would be good enough for us if it was accepted. So= you=20 > propose to add parameter NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE to nl80211 and funct= ions=20 > set_coverage/get_coverage to cfg80211_ops? Would that be sufficient? It'd be kinda cool if mac80211 auto-configured itself if it picked up a beacon that had this information, etc. johannes --=-Nv39YR5TpVOhKwOxX7hw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJLDuHsAAoJEODzc/N7+QmasPMQAICZEVbtniyKmEq9wBG0MJui ES1LCYQU/cyhxIsQahW0NnXwYfr86KrxmvNFxA0tUqLhATFrSHqmzPDDcD7N000x QF/0+PE9Yxr+uIZScZKDKAyF7dZtjwGhRqmaXLe5eiMbhnl2eUNOOQVH0H17fDos IHmvXEO0xZq0OZxrshu5vEjVcNAEZ0bVk+bCkTCDZib00r71hIbil6pkvMRjROzt bqQVRZwyFtnflclMILh44h+Dq93Cy3rJv7LaiJn8X4rbN1M/sC4TKwIFNdZHaspF UkqO+Lp/OaF5QxY81/DwMm1NShIGGrlhrRhQ6DaPzmzYc66G5M1jEKeSVimOkDah aE81JtBxPKrWNuhGCPM8k9Lti4yKniL7sLR644mr54fh8pdUk+hfpjlqi9+gGSv1 gjZF2Gjiae119wVWDa84qKJs7fAfpmexVJTEv2eq+W5jfuy/UDO0vb6NTgqELZqu 7+7/t8Ql0rsXEiNX754sfHiHotz926zzd3v6FRvL//qmg69szKBHsbEUHDrpCDxy Mz8+0t04u8Yb2GJUPv+f1g1vhpQe7U8hDdwOyE+4TnQd6beZYzsT8gypqPW88GJX 1Soxo2uPiXm18FmRZ6JyXxJdgLiHTHG36gFdloT9f0WinQ5WGkoy/4od24XnSprb qxAPXivhYRS/MgDLQtwc =eTmE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Nv39YR5TpVOhKwOxX7hw--