On Monday 10 September 2007 12:52:21 Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 12:58 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > Basically, the TX status report is only useful for the rate control > > algorithm. So it's basically "only" statistics. But we have to > > get these statistics approximately right to get the RC algo working > > correctly. That is what this patch does. With it, the RC algo properly > > scales up and down if the signal gets better or worse. > > Michael, this is unfortunately not true. At least hostapd relies on the > ack callback because it requires stations to acknowledge the association > response before advancing the state machine, and we have also made > monitoring outgoing packets depend on the ack callback. I think the ack callback is pretty reliable, so that should be OK. It looks for the ACK in software. -- Greetings Michael. - 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
