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Re: [PATCH v4] mac80211/minstrel_ht: add support for using CCK rates

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On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 10:41 +0100, Karl Beldan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:51:08AM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> > When MCS rates start to get bad in 2.4 GHz because of long range or
> > strong interference, CCK rates can be a lot more robust.
> > 
> > This patch adds a pseudo MCS group containing CCK rates (long preamble
> > in the lower 4 slots, short preamble in the upper slots).
> > 
> With this, mac80211 might send CCK rates with IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU set.
> For aggregates, if we don't currently set NO_CCK, at the very least the
> 1st rate index should belong to an MCS_GROUP.

I guess that depends on how you expect rate control to work ... I'd
kinda expect the driver to skip aggregation then? I think only ath9k
even uses minstrel + aggregation?

johannes

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