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Re: [PATCH] rt2x00: Fix TX status reporting for rt2800pci.

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On Sunday 28 February 2010, Alban Browaeys wrote:
> After testing, we found that TX_STA_FIFO_MCS is the last MCS value
> tried. If the transmission failed, 8 frames have been transmitted. If the
> transmission succeed, we can easily compute the number of retry.  This patch fix
> the way status is reported to mac80211 rate control. It has 2 bugs :
> 
> 1. mcs can contain the short preamble flag and it will lead to wrong
> computations.
> 
> 2. minstrel nearly always say that 54 Mbits is the best rate, even if we are
> very far from the AP
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alban Browaeys <prahal@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@xxxxxxxxx>

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