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Re: [PATCH] ath9k: fix regression in sending aggregated packets

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On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:25:27AM +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> The recent commit "ath9k: Send legacy rated frames as unaggregated"
> introduced a check to ensure that packets with non-MCS rates set in
> the rate series will not be aggregated. However, it failed to check
> if the rate series is valid before testing the flags, thus breaking
> aggregation for normal MCS-only packets if the last series is unset.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
> index 5e29829..ac393a6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
> @@ -582,7 +582,10 @@ static bool ath_lookup_legacy(struct ath_buf *bf)
>  	tx_info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
>  	rates = tx_info->control.rates;
>  
> -	for (i = 3; i >= 0; i--) {
> +	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
> +		if (!rates[i].count || rates[i].idx < 0)
> +			break;
> +
Good catch. Let it be descending order that helps to reduce number of iteration in case of
ath9k_rate_control.

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Rajkumar
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