Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFCv2 2/6] mac80211: add new RC API to retrieve expected throughput

Johannes Berg
2014-04-10T17:14:56Z

On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 17:53 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
>
> On 08/04/14 12:04, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Sun, 2014-03-30 at 22:35 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> >
> >> + u32 (*get_expected_throughput)(void *priv, void *priv_sta,
> >> + struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband);
> >
> > why would that need an sband argument?
> >
>
> I needed this because I saw it is required by some RC algo (only
> minstrel) to extract the bitrate starting from the index.
>
> You can check patch 4/6 for this:
>
> + bitrate = sband->bitrates[mi->r[idx].rix].bitrate;
>
> maybe I can extract it from another structure? I couldn't find any way..

Bit strange that the algorithm doesn't have the band, if it has an
index? but I guess I didn't check all the patches...

johannes