Subject: Re: Configuring multicast/NO_ACK  data rate in mac80211
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com>
Cc: ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:05:54 +0100
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On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 00:34 -0800, Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> Hello all,
> we are currently evaluating whether ath5k/ath9k is able to replace Madwif=
i for
> a project we are working on. We use Madwifi (among other things) to trans=
mit
> Video streams over multicast to a group of nodes in an IBSS network. To g=
et=20
> the required data rate we rely on the Madwifi iwpriv call mcast_rate.
> Is there an equivalent configuration option in mac80211?

No. We briefly talked about this at one of the last wireless summits,
and it could be implemented with the cfg80211 operation
set_bitrate_mask() which we modelled for that, but never implemented all
of it.

johannes

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