On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:15:12PM -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: > Johannes, > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Johannes Berg > <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Luis, > > > > Can you explain what you're using this for in the mesh code? > > It is used to estimate the average retransmissions that will be > required to send a nominal frame over a given peer link. > That's one component of the airtime link metric. > > > I do know that neither ath9k's nor Intel's rate > > control algorithms ever set it so it'll always be zero. > > In that case transmission failures will not be taken into account and > nodes with that hardware will report a lower (better) link metric than > what they should. In other words, those nodes will attract mesh > traffic, which will provide a strong incentive for the driver > maintainers to set that value correctly :) Neither of our drivers support Mesh yet though so this is good to know, once we do add it (or someone does). Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
