On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:21:46AM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:05:21 -0700, Michael Wu wrote: > > On Thursday 07 June 2007 20:49, Larry Finger wrote: > > > Does mode->rates[0].flags automatically have IEEE80211_RATE_SUPPORTED set? > > > That wasn't clear to me. > > > > > Yes. (see ieee80211_prepare_rates) > > No :-) In theory, you can use PRISM2_HOSTAPD_SET_RATE_SETS ioctl to > disable the lowest available rate. Yes, that's deprecated and bad thing > to do; but unfortunately, it can be done with the current code. There are some odd cases, where disabling the lowest supported rate may even be required due to regulatory rules.. Regardless of whether it is considered bad thing or not in general, I would hope that this functionality remains and all rate control algorithms prepare to handle such an anomaly. > Larry's patch is IMHO correct. Agreed. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
