[PATCH v2 2/2] mac80211: minstrel try all rates

Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24T17:05:32Z

In Ad-Hoc mode, it is possible for minstrel to be initialized without complete rate information.
In these cases, throughput suffers because not all rates are tried. This patch tells minstrel to try all rates.
This won't cause problems, because unsupported rates will simply fail, causing minstrel to set their probability to 0%.
(Hopefully not whitespace damaged this time)

Signed-off-by: Adam Wozniak <awozniak@irobot.com>
---
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
index 6e5d68b..3a8fe30 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
@@ -395,8 +395,6 @@ minstrel_rate_init(void *priv, struct
ieee80211_supported_band *sband,
unsigned int tx_time_single;
unsigned int cw = mp->cw_min;

- if (!rate_supported(sta, sband->band, i))
- continue;
n++;
memset(mr, 0, sizeof(*mr));