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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mac80211: minstrel try all rates

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On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 09:05 -0800, Adam Wozniak wrote:
> In Ad-Hoc mode, it is possible for minstrel to be initialized without complete rate information.
> In these cases, throughput suffers because not all rates are tried.  This patch tells minstrel to try all rates.  
> This won't cause problems, because unsupported rates will simply fail, causing minstrel to set their probability to 0%.
> (Hopefully not whitespace damaged this time)

I still stand by this being the wrong thing to do

johannes

> Signed-off-by: Adam Wozniak <awozniak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
> b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
> index 6e5d68b..3a8fe30 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
> @@ -395,8 +395,6 @@ minstrel_rate_init(void *priv, struct
> ieee80211_supported_band *sband,
>  		unsigned int tx_time_single;
>  		unsigned int cw = mp->cw_min;
>  
> -		if (!rate_supported(sta, sband->band, i))
> -			continue;
>  		n++;
>  		memset(mr, 0, sizeof(*mr));
>  
> 
> 

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