On Feb 5, 2008 11:23 PM, Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:05:25 +0200
> "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Sorry I meant
> > ieee80211_tx_status {
> > > size_t nrates;
> > > ieee80211_tx_ratectrl rates[0] ;
> > > }
>
> FWIW, I'm OK with this. BTW, further changes to this may be required in
> the future as I plan to rework a bit the whole tx_status thing so that
> drivers won't have to report ACKed frames but failed and retransmitted
> frames only - this would reduce the load on slow buses such as USB.
>
Just keep in mind that some driver requires to report ACKed frames to
make rate scaling algorithm to work properly, this should be optional
only.
Second I believe for some management frames it's good to notify mac
about successful transmission regardless of rate scaling algorithm.
Thanks
Tomas
> --
> Ciao
> Stefano
>
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