From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Sam Leffler <sleffler@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: Radiotap injected rates
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:26:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363634768.8260.16.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130317215544.GA7031@gobelin> (sfid-20130317_225612_791728_FF17B65A)
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 22:55 +0100, Karl Beldan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some time ago the rate selection for radiotap injected frames did not
> make it essentially for mac80211 getting short in IEEE80211_TX_CTL_*s.
>
> Would it be acceptable to replace the originally proposed:
>
>
> - if (!(tx->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL))
> + if (!(tx->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL) &&
> + !(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_RC))
> CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl);
>
> with something like :
>
> - if (!(tx->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL))
> + if (!(tx->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL) &&
> + !(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED && info->control.rates[i]))
> CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl);
No, older wpa_supplicant/hostapd still use monitor interfaces for
management frame transmissions, and require rate control.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-18 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-17 21:55 Radiotap injected rates Karl Beldan
2013-03-18 19:26 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-03-18 19:54 ` Karl Beldan
2013-03-22 12:24 ` Johannes Berg
2013-03-22 13:27 ` Karl Beldan
2013-03-22 13:32 ` Johannes Berg
2013-03-22 13:53 ` Karl Beldan
2013-03-22 14:00 ` Johannes Berg
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