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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: use min rate as basic rate for buggy APs

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On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/25/2011 10:26 AM, Eliad Peller wrote:
>>
>> Some buggy APs (and even P2P_GO) don't advertise their
>> basic rates in the association response.
>>
>> In such case, use the min supported rate as the
>> basic rate.
>
> I seem to vaguely remember discussing using mandatory rates, did we?
>
yes.
the problem with the mandatory rates is that we shouldn't use CCK
rates when working as p2p_cli (there *shouldn't* be such GO, but this
was an actual case...)

> Also this seems like a last resort fallback, I'd really also try using the
> probe response information -- we should have that information still at this
> point. But maybe that doesn't make sense -- fix the APs instead!
>
right.

> I'd really like a (debug?) message here though. This is a stupid AP, and I
> will need to know if I'm debugging some throughput issues etc.
sure. i'll add it.

thanks for the review.
Eliad.
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