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Re: [RFC] mac80211: add rate to ieee80211_tx_status

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On Feb 4, 2008 4:04 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Felix Fietkau wrote:
>
> > I'd like to have multiple rates in the tx status, including the number of
> > attempts for each rate. The Minstrel rate control needs these to build its
> > statistics properly.

> Maybe we should add two new structures:
>  (a) struct ieee80211_ratectrl_tx_status
> and
>  (b) struct ieee80211_tx_ratectrl
>
> both containing a struct ieee80211_bitrate * and u32 rate_ctrl_flags, then
> we can build arrays of these where necessary and/or embed them in
> tx_status and tx_control.

I think we should also remove ieee80211_tx_control from  ieee80211_tx_status.
Maybe we should add blob to tx_status let say of skb->cb[] size and
field for rate scale algorithm version/name.  Otherwise we will be
inventing API for each rate scale algorithm... or maybe I'm giving up
to reach something general...

Tomas



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