Chenchong's work on net80211_ratectl

[Chenchong Qin]

Hi!

These days, I'm taking a further look at what Linux done for the _completion_
of a
frame. Some updates will be posted here later.

And, with ir_rates, we can return/fill an rc array rather than just
returning the rix.

Thanks!

Chenchong





On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Boo!
>
> Do you have another update?
>
>
>
> -adrian
>
> On 24 July 2013 06:44, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On 24 July 2013 06:38, Chenchong Qin <qinchenchong at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> My pleasure!
> >>
> >> It's also against HEAD.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >
> > Ok. This is looking great!
> >
> > Next - we need to update the rate control API to now populate an rc
> > array rather than just returning the rix.
> >
> > This is the tricky part - as we're going to have to modify all the
> > drivers that use the rate control API to use this.
> > Which is fine, as there's only a handful. It's just annoying.
> >
> > Then we have to provide the rate control information during frame
> > _completion_, so the rate control code knows which transmission rates
> > succeeded or failed. I'm still not sure what to do about it here.
> > Maybe do something like Linux and attach TX rate control and
> > completion information as an mbuf tag?
> >
> > _Then_ we can start doing interesting thing with it. :)
> >
> >
> >
> > -adrian
>