Message-ID: <52DE9BAA.6020205@open-mesh.com> (sfid-20140121_171029_383587_DDFFC045)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:09:14 +0100
From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
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To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
CC: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/5] cfg80211: export minstrel best rate information through
 get_station()
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On 21/01/14 17:00, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 12:09 +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
>=20
>> + * @prob: probability of success of this birate
>=20
> typo: bitrate
>=20
>> +struct cfg80211_minstrel_rate_info {
>> +	u32 bitrate;
>> +	u32 prob;
>> +};
>=20
> Do you actually care about this, rather than bitrate*prob, ie. somethin=
g
> like "expected throughput"?=20

Right now this is the way how we use it in the batman-adv code..but we
may decide to change it for some reason. This is why I preferred to keep
the two values separated.

> Actually this isn't expected throughput, but
> wouldn't something like expected throughput make even more sense?

How should I obtain that if not with the previous operation (bitrate*prob=
)?


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Antonio Quartulli


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