From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>,
Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: minstrel_ht should not override user supplied rts setting
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:36:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F24B0B5.1060101@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120128221452.GB22180@pandem0nium>
On 2012-01-28 11:14 PM, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> I agree to Marek here - if I want to disable RTS (for whatever reason), I type
>
> iw phy0 set rts off
>
> I would expect to see no RTS frames coming from my WiFi card at all. If the
> rate control algorithm (whether ath9k or minstrel_ht) wants to be clever, it should
> still respect this decision. The oven in my kitchen also has a temperature regulator,
> but if I turn it off I also don't want my oven to be too clever and burn down the house. ;)
>
> I know, apples and oranges, but I hope this makes this point understandable. I also
> had quite a debugging night to find the reason for these "wild rts" frames.
>
> Can't we add something two states, like:
> * "RTS really off" and
> * "RTS usually off, but rc's may still use it" ?
If you send a patch for that, I'm ok with it. The default should be RTS
off, but rc may still use it.
- Feli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-29 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-28 7:17 [RFC] minstrel_ht should not override user supplied rts Marek Lindner
2012-01-28 7:17 ` [PATCH] mac80211: minstrel_ht should not override user supplied rts setting Marek Lindner
2012-01-28 13:25 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-01-28 18:43 ` Marek Lindner
2012-01-28 18:51 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-01-28 19:17 ` Daniel Halperin
2012-01-28 19:28 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-01-28 19:58 ` Marek Lindner
2012-01-28 20:03 ` Daniel Halperin
2012-01-28 20:09 ` Marek Lindner
2012-01-28 20:26 ` Daniel Halperin
2012-01-28 20:35 ` Marek Lindner
2012-01-28 22:14 ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-01-29 2:36 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2012-01-28 20:20 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-01-28 20:23 ` Marek Lindner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-11 9:52 iwlwifi updates for 3.6 Johannes Berg
2012-06-11 9:53 ` [PATCH 09/13] iwlwifi: comment that setting driver_data overrides info->control Johannes Berg
2014-09-23 10:10 ` [PATCH] mac80211: minstrel_ht should not override user supplied rts setting Guido Gavilanes
2014-09-23 11:44 Guido Gavilanes
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4F24B0B5.1060101@openwrt.org \
--to=nbd@openwrt.org \
--cc=dhalperi@cs.washington.edu \
--cc=lindner_marek@yahoo.de \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.