Re: [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: initialize rate control after station inserted

Johannes Berg
2009-08-29T09:01:35Z

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On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 15:40 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:

> Wouldn't that make it difficult to experiment with external rate scaling
> algorithms? Not that minstrel or the other in-driver rate scaling
> algorithms always get it right, but they are certainly more transparent
> (and changeable) then firmware.

It does, in theory, but then again you don't really _have_ the choice.
iwlagn only lets you control the rate on the host to some extent,
there's not a lot we can do. IMHO using the rate control algorithms like
they are now is a kludge because we've always needed a rate control
algorithm, but it's still not really useful.

johannes

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