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On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 09:40 +0200, Mattias Nissler wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 20:59 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:01:27PM +0200, Mattias Nissler wrote:
> > 
> > > Btw. lately I've been thinking about a new RC algo that simply
> > > calculates the throughput achievable by a specific rate (based on the
> > > estimated frame transmission failure ratio and transmission times) and
> > > then selects the one that provides the best throughput. It's still a
> > > very vague idea, but I think it might be interesting to try.
> > 
> > This sounds like a reasonable approach.  Isn't this more-or-less what
> > Minstrel does?
> 
> I just checked Minstrel out. Seems quite like what I had in mind :-) Are
> there any efforts to port minstrel to mac80211?

nbd has been promising for ages, but has not had time so far. The full
minstrel will also require API changes between drivers/mac80211/RC.

johannes

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