linux-stable/net/ieee80211/softmac
Daniel Drake 8462fe3cd9 [PATCH] softmac: suggest per-frame-type TX rate
This patch is the first step towards rate control inside softmac.

The txrates substructure has been extended to provide
different fields for different types of packets (management/data,
unicast/multicast). These fields are updated on association to values
compatible with the access point we are associating to.

Drivers can then use the new ieee80211softmac_suggest_txrate() function
call when deciding which rate to transmit each frame at. This is
immensely useful for ZD1211, and bcm can use it too.

The user can still specify a rate through iwconfig, which is matched
for all transmissions (assuming the rate they have specified is in
the rate set required by the AP).

At a later date, we can incorporate automatic rate management into
the ieee80211softmac_recalc_txrates() function.

This patch also removes the mcast_fallback field. Sam Leffler pointed
out that this field is meaningless, because no driver will ever be
retransmitting mcast frames (they are not acked).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-05-05 17:10:41 -04:00
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ieee80211softmac_assoc.c [PATCH] softmac: suggest per-frame-type TX rate 2006-05-05 17:10:41 -04:00
ieee80211softmac_auth.c [PATCH] softmac: deauthentication implies deassociation 2006-05-05 17:10:39 -04:00
ieee80211softmac_event.c [PATCH] softmac: clean up event handling code 2006-04-24 16:15:58 -04:00
ieee80211softmac_io.c [PATCH] softmac: handle iw_mode properly 2006-04-19 17:25:39 -04:00
ieee80211softmac_module.c [PATCH] softmac: suggest per-frame-type TX rate 2006-05-05 17:10:41 -04:00
ieee80211softmac_priv.h [PATCH] softmac: suggest per-frame-type TX rate 2006-05-05 17:10:41 -04:00
ieee80211softmac_scan.c [PATCH] softmac: make non-operational after being stopped 2006-05-05 16:55:22 -04:00
ieee80211softmac_wx.c [PATCH] softmac: suggest per-frame-type TX rate 2006-05-05 17:10:41 -04:00
Kconfig [PATCH] softmac uses Wiress Ext. 2006-04-19 17:25:37 -04:00
Makefile [PATCH] softmac: fix Makefiles 2006-03-22 22:16:51 -05:00