From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>,
Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: minstrel_ht should not override user supplied rts setting
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:36:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F24B0B5.1060101@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120128221452.GB22180@pandem0nium>
On 2012-01-28 11:14 PM, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> I agree to Marek here - if I want to disable RTS (for whatever reason), I type
>
> iw phy0 set rts off
>
> I would expect to see no RTS frames coming from my WiFi card at all. If the
> rate control algorithm (whether ath9k or minstrel_ht) wants to be clever, it should
> still respect this decision. The oven in my kitchen also has a temperature regulator,
> but if I turn it off I also don't want my oven to be too clever and burn down the house. ;)
>
> I know, apples and oranges, but I hope this makes this point understandable. I also
> had quite a debugging night to find the reason for these "wild rts" frames.
>
> Can't we add something two states, like:
> * "RTS really off" and
> * "RTS usually off, but rc's may still use it" ?
If you send a patch for that, I'm ok with it. The default should be RTS
off, but rc may still use it.
- Feli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-29 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-28 7:17 [RFC] minstrel_ht should not override user supplied rts Marek Lindner
2012-01-28 7:17 ` [PATCH] mac80211: minstrel_ht should not override user supplied rts setting Marek Lindner
2012-01-28 13:25 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-01-28 18:43 ` Marek Lindner
2012-01-28 18:51 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-01-28 19:17 ` Daniel Halperin
2012-01-28 19:28 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-01-28 19:58 ` Marek Lindner
2012-01-28 20:03 ` Daniel Halperin
2012-01-28 20:09 ` Marek Lindner
2012-01-28 20:26 ` Daniel Halperin
2012-01-28 20:35 ` Marek Lindner
2012-01-28 22:14 ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-01-29 2:36 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2012-01-28 20:20 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-01-28 20:23 ` Marek Lindner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-11 9:52 iwlwifi updates for 3.6 Johannes Berg
2012-06-11 9:53 ` [PATCH 09/13] iwlwifi: comment that setting driver_data overrides info->control Johannes Berg
2014-09-23 10:10 ` [PATCH] mac80211: minstrel_ht should not override user supplied rts setting Guido Gavilanes
2014-09-23 11:44 Guido Gavilanes
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