mac80211: add helper for management / no-ack frame rate decision
authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:05:41 +0000 (10:05 -0700)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:05:16 +0000 (15:05 -0400)
commit4c6d4f5c33fbe19b134c1af43af166fee79eb986
tree789bd7f9c049ea9c57ad8f4826df6bcad3774ade
parent943ab70f6aebfdc0005ef7e58ae982e9ec22224b
mac80211: add helper for management / no-ack frame rate decision

All current rate control algorithms agree to send management and no-ack
frames at the lowest rate. They also agree to do this when sta
and the private rate control data is NULL. We add a hlper to mac80211
for this and simplify the rate control algorithm code.

Developers wishing to make enhancements to rate control algorithms
are for broadcast/multicast can opt to not use this in their
gate_rate() mac80211 callback.

Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-rs.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c
include/net/mac80211.h
net/mac80211/rate.c
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c