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Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] mac80211: improve the rate control API

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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:09:51PM +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> Allow rate control modules to pass a rate selection table to mac80211
> and the driver. This allows drivers to fetch the most recent rate
> selection from the sta pointer for already buffered frames. This allows
> rate control to respond faster to sudden link changes and it is also a
> step towards adding minstrel_ht support to drivers like iwlwifi.
> 
> When a driver sets IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_RC_TABLE, mac80211 will not
> fill info->control.rates with rates from the rate table (to preserve
> explicit overrides by the rate control module). The driver then
> explicitly calls ieee80211_get_tx_rates to merge overrides from
> info->control.rates with defaults from the sta rate table.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Looks ok to me.
 
Karl
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