From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Adam Wozniak <awozniak@irobot.com>
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adhoc networking, was Re: compat-wireless and minstrel
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:43:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B01E39B.6090705@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B01E298.3030602@irobot.com>
Adam Wozniak wrote:
> It seems like the code I pointed out earlier in rx.c is certainly wrong
> then; bitrates used in absence of other information should not be
> guessed based on the received rate, but should come instead from the
> BSSID. Correct?
>
> Although, once you start these silly examples, it seems to me like the
> best thing to do is just assume the receiver can handle anything and let
> minstrel sort out what works and what doesn't. This has obvious problems
> for PID and similar rate algorithms.
In mesh networks here in Berlin and elsewhere, some people are running
with beacons disabled ('ahdemo' mode), so it would be nice if mac80211
could deal with this as well, by testing rates in absence of beacon
information.
- Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-16 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-04 1:13 compat-wireless and minstrel Adam Wozniak
2009-11-04 15:53 ` Christian Lamparter
2009-11-04 15:57 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-04 21:01 ` Derek Smithies
2009-11-04 21:42 ` Christian Lamparter
2009-11-04 21:46 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-04 21:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-04 21:53 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-04 21:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-04 22:18 ` Christian Lamparter
2009-11-04 22:20 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-04 22:31 ` Christian Lamparter
2009-11-04 22:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-10 22:59 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-11 0:55 ` Derek Smithies
2009-11-11 1:08 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-11 2:09 ` Derek Smithies
2009-11-12 19:43 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-12 20:03 ` Christian Lamparter
2009-11-12 22:38 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-12 22:41 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-13 7:29 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-13 22:35 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-14 9:30 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-16 17:25 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-16 17:27 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-16 17:57 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-16 18:07 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-16 21:02 ` Adhoc networking, was " Derek Smithies
2009-11-16 22:39 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-16 23:13 ` Derek Smithies
2009-11-16 23:39 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-16 23:43 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2009-11-17 0:20 ` Derek Smithies
2009-11-17 7:38 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-17 17:39 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-23 20:21 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-23 23:27 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-24 0:57 ` [PATCH 0/2] mac80211: IBSS rates Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 " Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 0:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: supp_rates initialization and rate control notification Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 1:16 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-24 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 " Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 17:13 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-24 0:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: minstrel try all rates Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 1:11 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-24 16:13 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 16:17 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 17:17 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 17:41 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-24 17:55 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 17:58 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-24 18:34 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 18:36 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-24 18:43 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 19:00 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-24 19:44 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 19:47 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-24 19:58 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 " Adam Wozniak
2009-11-24 17:14 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-12 23:35 ` compat-wireless and minstrel Christian Lamparter
2009-11-13 0:25 ` Adam Wozniak
2009-11-13 0:32 ` Adam Wozniak
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