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| author | Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> | 2006-05-01 22:45:50 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2006-05-05 17:10:41 -0400 |
| commit | 8462fe3cd9ec8951871a20a4dfe36321ab075964 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b3c6db6091ee99b4791a911734229181ef6f473 /net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h | |
| parent | 461c078c9cdfc1d24a436a87daed90f18c3b0d0d (diff) | |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h index 5de0abf157e3..fa1f8e3acfc0 100644 --- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h +++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h @@ -116,7 +116,10 @@ ieee80211softmac_get_network_by_essid(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac, struct ieee80211softmac_essid *essid); /* Rates related */ +int ieee80211softmac_ratesinfo_rate_supported(struct ieee80211softmac_ratesinfo *ri, u8 rate); u8 ieee80211softmac_lower_rate_delta(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac, u8 rate, int delta); +void ieee80211softmac_init_txrates(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac); +void ieee80211softmac_recalc_txrates(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac); static inline u8 lower_rate(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac, u8 rate) { return ieee80211softmac_lower_rate_delta(mac, rate, 1); } |