Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f220.google.com ([209.85.219.220]:52486 "EHLO mail-ew0-f220.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751264Ab0CAHeg (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2010 02:34:36 -0500 Received: by mail-ew0-f220.google.com with SMTP id 20so1061584ewy.21 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:34:36 -0800 (PST) From: Ivo van Doorn To: prahal@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] rt2x00: Fix TX status reporting for rt2800pci. Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:34:34 +0100 Cc: John Linville , Gertjan van Wingerde , Pavel Roskin , "linux-wireless" , rt2x00 Users List , Josef Bacik References: <4B8A9670.1080906@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4B8A9670.1080906@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <201003010834.34740.IvDoorn@gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sunday 28 February 2010, Alban Browaeys wrote: > After testing, we found that TX_STA_FIFO_MCS is the last MCS value > tried. If the transmission failed, 8 frames have been transmitted. If the > transmission succeed, we can easily compute the number of retry. This patch fix > the way status is reported to mac80211 rate control. It has 2 bugs : > > 1. mcs can contain the short preamble flag and it will lead to wrong > computations. > > 2. minstrel nearly always say that 54 Mbits is the best rate, even if we are > very far from the AP > > Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault > Signed-off-by: Alban Browaeys Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn