mac80211: add helper for management / no-ack frame rate decision

All current rate control algorithms agree to send management and no-ack
frames at the lowest rate. They also agree to do this when sta
and the private rate control data is NULL. We add a hlper to mac80211
for this and simplify the rate control algorithm code.

Developers wishing to make enhancements to rate control algorithms
are for broadcast/multicast can opt to not use this in their
gate_rate() mac80211 callback.

Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c
index 3fea027f35d1..63280411fd58 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c
@@ -2481,13 +2481,8 @@ static void rs_get_rate(void *priv_r, struct ieee80211_sta *sta, void *priv_sta,
         }
 
         /* Send management frames and NO_ACK data using lowest rate. */
-        if (!ieee80211_is_data(hdr->frame_control) ||
-            info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK || !sta || !lq_sta) {
-                info->control.rates[0].idx = rate_lowest_index(sband, sta);
-                if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK)
-                        info->control.rates[0].count = 1;
+        if (rate_control_send_low(sta, priv_sta, txrc))
                 return;
-        }
 
         rate_idx  = lq_sta->last_txrate_idx;