From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Richard Schütz" <rschuetz@uni-koblenz.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] wireless: set correct mandatory rate flags
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:57:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504861023.6177.14.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85930e91-2c1e-53a6-5b65-d796116295fa@uni-koblenz.de>
On Fri, 2017-09-08 at 10:43 +0200, Richard Schütz wrote:
> > Hmm, I guess technically you're correct, since 11b added what's now
> > Clause 16 (was Clause 18 at the time), and that has all of them
> > mandatory? But perhaps this was actually intended for Clause 15
> > compatibility?
>
> Compatibility in what way?
Well, realistically there are only three users of this information:
* ieee80211_mandatory_rates(), used for supported station rates if we
don't know anything better in IBSS (and OCB) and for basic rates in
mesh;
* basic rates in IBSS (__cfg80211_join_ibss);
* duration calculation in ieee80211_duration, but that's just a
fallback
So I guess it's now pretty unlikely that anyone would have a pre-11b
device, so it would make sense to actually make this change.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-08 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-07 15:47 [PATCH 1/2] wireless: set correct mandatory rate flags Richard Schütz
2017-09-07 15:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] wireless: return correct mandatory rates Richard Schütz
2017-09-08 6:55 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 8:43 ` Richard Schütz
2017-09-08 8:53 ` Richard Schütz
2017-09-08 9:33 ` Simon Wunderlich
2017-09-08 9:03 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 10:10 ` Richard Schütz
2017-09-08 10:12 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 16:07 ` [PATCH v2 " Richard Schütz
2017-09-21 13:52 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-22 10:09 ` Richard Schütz
2017-09-22 10:28 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 6:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] wireless: set correct mandatory rate flags Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 8:43 ` Richard Schütz
2017-09-08 8:57 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2017-09-21 13:49 ` Johannes Berg
2018-01-26 22:17 ` Matthias Schiffer
2018-01-30 7:43 ` Johannes Berg
2018-01-30 10:47 ` Matthias Schiffer
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