From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: minstrel_ht should not override user supplied rts setting
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:43:47 +0800
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Saturday, January 28, 2012 21:25:39 Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2012-01-28 8:17 AM, Marek Lindner wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
> 
> NACK, minstrel_ht sets RTS/CTS only from the second rate retry slot on,
> to increase the success probability during retransmissions. For the
> first slot, it is unset. The user supplied rts setting is not suitable
> for configuring RTS/CTS usage this way, so if you want to disable it
> entirely, you'd need to add a new setting for that.

If you think it is unsuitable do you mind elaborating what this setting is 
for? As far as I can tell minstrel_ht is the only rate control algorithm that 
decides to be smarter than the user configuring the device. Without mentioning 
this anywhere! IMHO it should be minstrel_ht explaining why this makes sense, 
not the other way round.

Regards,
Marek