On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 10:02 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:

> When I first started investigating the problem of mac80211 not reducing the 
> rate as I moved away 
> from the AP, it seemed to me that the decision regarding excessive retries 
> should be made in 
> mac80211, not in the driver; however, I have had extreme difficulty in 
> getting any changes into 
> mac80211 on several occasions. Linville assures me that he has had private 
> discussions about this 
> problem; however, I needed a quick fix and couldn't stand any protracted 
> discussion and/or review 
> delays. I knew Michael would be tough, but that his comments would not be 
> delayed.

Agreed. There are definitely problems with getting things into mac80211
and I've complained about that in the past.

> At the moment, I have more pressing matters to resolve than fixing this 
> problem in mac80211; 
> however, I feel really good that the port of bcm43xx-softmac to mac80211 has 
> this issue.

I think that a great many other drivers will have this issue too.

johannes

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