Re: compat-wireless and minstrel

[Adam Wozniak <awozniak@irobot.com>]

I'll let that run tonight as well.  Although I think the comment about 
using rate_control_rate_update instead of rate_control_rate_init would 
be important to future developers.  I also notice that mlme.c calls 
rate_control_rate_update.  I'm not sure what that does.  Someone 
familiar with that may want to investigate, it's probably a big deal if 
someone changes bands and all the supported rates change.

Alternately, it may be ok just to stick a stub in like this for now:

static void minstrel_rate_update(void *priv, struct 
ieee80211_supported_band *sband,
               struct ieee80211_sta *sta, void *priv_sta, u32 changed) {
   minstrel_rate_init(priv, sband, sta, priv_sta);
}

( and update mac80211_minstrel )


Thoughts?

--Adam

Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:38:07 Adam Wozniak wrote:
>   
>> I see what you're doing there.
>> That didn't quite work, but I'm fairly confident this one will.
>>     
> yep, what about the attached version? ...it's slightly different...
>
> BTW: Use "diff -up" or "diff -uprN" to create patches. (or git :) )
> ---
>
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
> index fbffce9..7c6c170 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
> @@ -246,9 +246,12 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_bss_info(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
>  	if (!channel || channel->flags & IEEE80211_CHAN_DISABLED)
>  		return;
>  
> +	/* make sure mandatory rates are always added */
> +	supp_rates = ieee80211_mandatory_rates(local, band);
> +
>  	if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC && elems->supp_rates &&
>  	    memcmp(mgmt->bssid, sdata->u.ibss.bssid, ETH_ALEN) == 0) {
> -		supp_rates = ieee80211_sta_get_rates(local, elems, band);
> +		supp_rates |= ieee80211_sta_get_rates(local, elems, band);
>  
>  		rcu_read_lock();
>  
> @@ -257,9 +260,7 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_bss_info(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
>  			u32 prev_rates;
>  
>  			prev_rates = sta->sta.supp_rates[band];
> -			/* make sure mandatory rates are always added */
> -			sta->sta.supp_rates[band] = supp_rates |
> -				ieee80211_mandatory_rates(local, band);
> +			sta->sta.supp_rates[band] = supp_rates;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_IBSS_DEBUG
>  			if (sta->sta.supp_rates[band] != prev_rates)
> @@ -272,6 +273,7 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_bss_info(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
>  				    (unsigned long long) supp_rates,
>  				    (unsigned long long) sta->sta.supp_rates[band]);
>  #endif
> +			rate_control_rate_init(sta);
>  		} else
>  			ieee80211_ibss_add_sta(sdata, mgmt->bssid, mgmt->sa, supp_rates);
>  
>