From 8462fe3cd9ec8951871a20a4dfe36321ab075964 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Drake Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 22:45:50 +0100 Subject: [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 Acked-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h') diff --git a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h index 5de0abf157e..fa1f8e3acfc 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); } -- cgit v1.2.3