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Re: [RFC] mac80211: add rate to ieee80211_tx_status

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On Feb 4, 2008 9:03 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Feb 4, 2008 8:39 PM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > > Will this work work you?
> > >
> > > ieee80211_tx_ratectrl {
> > >   u32 bitrate ( or pointer to ieee80211_rate I prefer no)
> > >   u32 flags
> > >   u32 retry_count
> > > }
> > >
> > > ieee80211_tx_status {
> > >     ieee80211_tx_ratectrl  retry_count[ X]  / * X >= 4 */
> > > }
> > I guess that would work, but shouln't the array below be dynamic based on
> > what the driver can do? Many drivers can only work with one or two rates, IMHO.
>
> The problem that this structure is passed with each packett I don't
> like the idea that anybody would even try to allocate and free this
> structure as packets goes. However what about the following?
>
> ieee80211_tx_status {
>          size_t nrates;
>          ieee80211_tx_ratectrl  retry_count[0] ;
> }
>
Sorry I meant
ieee80211_tx_status {
>          size_t nrates;
>          ieee80211_tx_ratectrl  rates[0] ;
> }
> > - Felix
> >
>
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