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Re: [RFC] API for setting ACK timeout

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On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 21:13 +0100, Lukáš Turek wrote:
> On 26.11.2009 20:25 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > My standard reference was obviously crap -- let's see, 7.3.2.9 is
> > better.
> Yes, I found the table. And now I also noticed the real difference: the slot 
> time according to the standard rises in a step of three (which means ACK 
> timeout will rise in a step of six). It's quite significant loss of 
> precision, but it probably shouldn't make much difference in throughput.

It only affects lost packets anyway, no?

> Anyway, this solutions would be good enough for us if it was accepted. So you 
> propose to add parameter NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE to nl80211 and functions 
> set_coverage/get_coverage to cfg80211_ops?

Would that be sufficient? It'd be kinda cool if mac80211 auto-configured
itself if it picked up a beacon that had this information, etc.

johannes

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