Jouni Malinen jouni@... writes:
In most cases, minstrel_ht is currently using the initial EAPOL-Key
frames for probing higher rates and this results in only five link layer
transmission attempts (one at high(ish) MCS and four at MCS0). While
this works with most APs, it looks like there are
The current minstrel_ht rate control behavior is somewhat optimistic in
trying to find optimum TX rate. While this is usually fine for normal
Data frames, there are cases where a more conservative set of retry
parameters would be beneficial to make the connection more robust.
EAPOL frames are
Johannes,
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Jouni Malinen jo...@qca.qualcomm.com wrote:
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org
Also Tested-by:, and I'd suggest marking it for stable too (although
I understand that David generally doesn't use stable tags, and just
sends them
Linus, Jouni, all,
Thanks everyone. I've applied this patch to my mac80211 tree - I'll send
it out to davem tomorrow I think.
Jouni, given that hwsim uses minstrel as well, perhaps we could have a
test case in the wpa_supplicant tests in some way that checks this? I'm
thinking we could hook into
