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Re: Radiotap injected rates

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On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 22:55 +0100, Karl Beldan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some time ago the rate selection for radiotap injected frames did not
> make it essentially for mac80211 getting short in IEEE80211_TX_CTL_*s.
> 
> Would it be acceptable to replace the originally proposed:
> 
> 
> -	if (!(tx->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL))
> +	if (!(tx->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL) &&
> +	    !(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_RC))
>  		CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl);
> 
> with something like :
> 
> -	if (!(tx->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL))
> +	if (!(tx->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL) &&
> +	    !(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED && info->control.rates[i]))
> 		CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl);

No, older wpa_supplicant/hostapd still use monitor interfaces for
management frame transmissions, and require rate control.

johannes

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