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Re: [RFC 1/5] cfg80211: export minstrel best rate information through get_station()

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On 21/01/14 17:00, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 12:09 +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> 
>> + * @prob: probability of success of this birate
> 
> typo: bitrate
> 
>> +struct cfg80211_minstrel_rate_info {
>> +	u32 bitrate;
>> +	u32 prob;
>> +};
> 
> Do you actually care about this, rather than bitrate*prob, ie. something
> like "expected throughput"? 

Right now this is the way how we use it in the batman-adv code..but we
may decide to change it for some reason. This is why I preferred to keep
the two values separated.

> Actually this isn't expected throughput, but
> wouldn't something like expected throughput make even more sense?

How should I obtain that if not with the previous operation (bitrate*prob)?


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Antonio Quartulli

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