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Re: [PATCH] ath9k: fix max phy rate at rate control init

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Hi Rajkumar,

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Rajkumar Manoharan
<rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The stations always chooses 1Mbps for all trasmitting frames,
> whenever the AP is configured to lock the supported rates.
> As the max phy rate is always set with the 4th from highest phy rate,
> this assumption might be wrong if we have less than that. Fix that.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Ajay Gummalla <agummalla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c
> index 888abc2..528d5f3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c
> @@ -1271,7 +1271,9 @@ static void ath_rc_init(struct ath_softc *sc,
>
>        ath_rc_priv->max_valid_rate = k;
>        ath_rc_sort_validrates(rate_table, ath_rc_priv);
> -       ath_rc_priv->rate_max_phy = ath_rc_priv->valid_rate_index[k-4];
> +       ath_rc_priv->rate_max_phy = (k > 4) ?
> +                                       ath_rc_priv->valid_rate_index[k-4] :
> +                                       ath_rc_priv->valid_rate_index[k-1];

Is k guaranteed > 1 here?  Some test equipment export only one rate so
we lock in to a single rate. I'm not sure how this would factor into
the k value here.

>        ath_rc_priv->rate_table = rate_table;
>
>        ath_dbg(common, ATH_DBG_CONFIG,
> --
> 1.7.8
>
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