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Re: [PATCH 6/9] rt2800: fallback from mcs8 to mcs7

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:10:48PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2017-01-06 14:05, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > If we do not fallback to lower rate, we are unable to calculate
> > correctly number of retries in TX status code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> I think falling back from the lowest dual-stream to the highest
> single-stream rate is a really bad idea.

Ok, Kalle please drop this patch.

> Instead you should get rid of the assumption that fallback rates are
> ordered by their MCS index.

I think I will stay with the current code. With decreased retry
limit setting in other patch, problem is mitigated. For newer
chips there is retry count TX_STA_FIFO_EXT register, so I'll look
into that.

Thanks
Stanislaw



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