Sam Leffler <sam@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> I see. Rate scale algorithm only tels FW from what rate to start >>> transmission. FW is responsible to do downscaling. Which is quite >>> reasonable as retransmission is real time process. Instead of >>> retransmitting on the same rate FW downscales. T X response provides >>> to the rate scaling algorithm the successful rate. >> >> I just want to point out this is an important feature when the bus is >> very slow, for example SPI bus in embedded devices. Retransfering >> frames through SPI for every rate restransmit would make such a device >> extremely slow. > > I don't know of a part that does repeated DMA to implement retransmit; > do you have an example? Asking me? No, I have never heard of such a device. -- Kalle Valo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
