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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: minstrel_ht: do not sample unsupported rates

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On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 13:10 +0100, Karl Beldan wrote:
> From: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ATM minstrel_ht does not check whether a sampling rate is supported.
> Unsupported rates attempts can trigger when there are holes in bitfields
> of supported MCSes belonging to the same group (e.g many devices are
> MCS32 capable without MCS33->39 capable, also we systematically have a
> hole for CCK rates).
> I originally replaced an unsupported sample index with the fls of the
> bitfield of supported indexes of the sta current sample group, instead,
> this change simply drops the sample attempt, as suggested by Felix.

That paragraph doesn't really belong here - you should describe what
this change is doing (now). There may be some value in describing how
you arrived at the solution, but this particular description seems
unnecessary?

johannes

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