From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:55331 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751432Ab0DMHVZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:21:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Initialize IBSS basic rates according to band From: Johannes Berg To: Bruno Randolf Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <201004130916.18626.br1@einfach.org> References: <20100412073658.28078.32155.stgit@tt-desk> <201004121734.39700.br1@einfach.org> <1271061652.3877.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <201004130916.18626.br1@einfach.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:21:15 +0200 Message-ID: <1271143275.4885.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 09:16 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote: > On Monday 12 April 2010 17:40:52 you wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 17:34 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote: > > > before we unconditionally used 3 (1Mbps, 2 Mbps) as basic rates. this > > > clearly is wrong in the 5GHz band. > > > > No, it's fine. Look again at how this works. > > (hello? can you please stop treating me like an idiot?) > > this means we use 6 and 9 as basic rates in the 5GHz band. > we should use 6, 12 and 24. No, we can treat 6 and 9 as basic rates if we want to when we create the IBSS. You seem to be confusing basic and mandatory rates or something else that I can't make sense of. It's NOT "clearly wrong". johannes