On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 01:58 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > + /* > + * We support at most 8 tries no matter which rate they're at, > + * we cannot support max_rates * max_rate_tries as we set it > + * here, but setting it correctly to 4/2 or so would limit us > + * artificially if the RC algorithm wants just two rates, so > + * let's say the max of rates and three tries each, and clip > + * it to a total of 8. > + */ > + dev->max_rates = IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES; > + dev->max_rate_tries = 3; Ideally, of course, we'd set max_rates to 8 and max_rate_tries to 1, but we don't have enough space for that in the tx info (no 8 rates possible). Hence, the next best thing that matches the HW well would be 4/2 and have the rate control algorithms program the same rate more than once if it wants more than two tries. Same in mac80211. Thoughts? Is that feasible? johannes
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