[PATCH] softmac: suggest per-frame-type TX rate

This patch is the first step towards rate control inside softmac.

The txrates substructure has been extended to provide
different fields for different types of packets (management/data,
unicast/multicast). These fields are updated on association to values
compatible with the access point we are associating to.

Drivers can then use the new ieee80211softmac_suggest_txrate() function
call when deciding which rate to transmit each frame at. This is
immensely useful for ZD1211, and bcm can use it too.

The user can still specify a rate through iwconfig, which is matched
for all transmissions (assuming the rate they have specified is in
the rate set required by the AP).

At a later date, we can incorporate automatic rate management into
the ieee80211softmac_recalc_txrates() function.

This patch also removes the mcast_fallback field. Sam Leffler pointed
out that this field is meaningless, because no driver will ever be
retransmitting mcast frames (they are not acked).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
index b7d83cd4d56c..22aa6199185b 100644
--- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
+++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
@@ -211,8 +211,8 @@ ieee80211softmac_wx_set_rate(struct net_device *net_dev,
         if (is_ofdm && !(ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_OFDM_MODULATION))
                 goto out_unlock;
 
-        mac->txrates.default_rate = rate;
-        mac->txrates.default_fallback = lower_rate(mac, rate);
+        mac->txrates.user_rate = rate;
+        ieee80211softmac_recalc_txrates(mac);
         err = 0;
 
 out_unlock: