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cfg80211/mac80211: Use more generic bitrate mask for rate control

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Extend struct cfg80211_bitrate_mask to actually use a bitfield mask
instead of just a single fixed or maximum rate index. This change
itself does not modify the behavior (except for debugfs files), but it
prepares cfg80211 and mac80211 for a new nl80211 command for setting
which rates can be used in TX rate control.

Since frames are now going through the rate control algorithm
unconditionally, the internal IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RCALGO flag can now
be removed. The RC implementations can use the rate_idx_mask value to
optimize their behavior if only a single rate is enabled.

The old max_rate_idx in struct ieee80211_tx_rate_control is maintained
(but commented as deprecated) for backwards compatibility with existing
RC implementations. Once these implementations have been updated to
use the more generic rate_idx_mask, the max_rate_idx value can be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Jouni Malinen
2010-01-06 13:09:08 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent e00cfce0cb
commit 37eb0b164c
10 changed files with 122 additions and 79 deletions
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net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
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@@ -494,8 +494,8 @@ struct ieee80211_sub_if_data {
*/
struct ieee80211_if_ap *bss;
int force_unicast_rateidx; /* forced TX rateidx for unicast frames */
int max_ratectrl_rateidx; /* max TX rateidx for rate control */
/* bitmap of allowed (non-MCS) rate indexes for rate control */
u32 rc_rateidx_mask[IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS];
union {
struct ieee80211_if_ap ap;