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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control API
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On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 01:09 -0600, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Yes, I know that much, but can you tell us how exactly?

I don't know the details either. Will follow up on this.

> It would be good to actually report as accurate as possible (up to
> MAX_RATES) the retries the firmware will have done. We're going to
> export that information to userland in radiotap too.

Sounds like a good idea. The actual number of retried rates should
depend on hardware/firmware. But '5' doesn't look like the possible MAX.

Thanks,
-yi