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Re: [PATCH v2 16/21] mac80211: add helper for management / no-ack frame rate decision

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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Luis R.
Rodriguez<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All current 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 add a hlper to mac80211
> for this and simplify the rate control algorithm code.
>
> Developers wishing to make enhancements to rate control algorithms
> are for broadcast/multicast can opt to not use this in their
> gate_rate() mac80211 callback.
>
> Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: ipw3945-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

ACK.

This will hopefully stop buggy algorithms from cropping up in the future.

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