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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: update last_tx_rate only for data frame

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On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 12:05 +0800, Chun-Yeow Yeoh wrote:
>> Rate controller in firmware may also return the Tx Rate
>> used for management frame that is usually sent as lowest
>> Tx Rate (1Mbps in 2.4GHz). So update the last_tx_rate only
>> if it is data frame.
>
> I guess this makes some sense, although maybe the rate shouldn't be
> reported then?

If you are referring to the last_tx_rate, we are using this to
calculate the Airtime Link Metric in the mesh mode.

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Chun-Yeow
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