On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Jouni Malinen<jouni.malinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 23:28 -0700, Johannes Berg wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 01:41 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > All rate control algorithms agree to send management and no-ack >> > frames at the lowest rate. They also agree to do this when sta >> > and the private rate control data is NULL. We move this to mac80211 >> > and simplify the rate control algorithm code. >> >> We previously thought this would constrain our rate control algorithms >> more than we would like for future experimentation with higher multicast >> rates. Has that changed? > > I hope not. I don't like the idea of forcing the lowest rate in > mac80211; we should allow rate control algorithms to be improved to do > more intelligent selection of rate at least for multicast/broadcast > frames. That might also be of use for some (likely post-association) > unicast management frames since their use is going to increase in the > future. How about a generic call for now then and have each RC use it for now. 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
