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Re: [RFC V2] bcm43xx-mac80211: Provide information to allow transmission rate decreases

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On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 13:37 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:

> If we just check the ack bit, rate control would throttle, just because
> we sent unacked frames.

Ah but rate control shouldn't actually care about frames that we never
expected an ACK for since there's no way to know for those anyway. So
IMHO the rate control algorithm shouldn't even be called for those
frames.

> So if we didn't get an ack, we need to check if we failed, or if...
> Oh, acutally. Why not simply check the noack bit in the tx_control... :)

Works too, but it seems mac80211 should do that.

johannes

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