On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 10:02 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > When I first started investigating the problem of mac80211 not reducing the rate as I moved away > from the AP, it seemed to me that the decision regarding excessive retries should be made in > mac80211, not in the driver; however, I have had extreme difficulty in getting any changes into > mac80211 on several occasions. Linville assures me that he has had private discussions about this > problem; however, I needed a quick fix and couldn't stand any protracted discussion and/or review > delays. I knew Michael would be tough, but that his comments would not be delayed. Agreed. There are definitely problems with getting things into mac80211 and I've complained about that in the past. > At the moment, I have more pressing matters to resolve than fixing this problem in mac80211; > however, I feel really good that the port of bcm43xx-softmac to mac80211 has this issue. I think that a great many other drivers will have this issue too. johannes
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