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authorHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>2010-06-14 22:12:01 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-06-15 16:00:50 -0400
commit3f2bee249926194313f7001bdfedb9c9634a48fc (patch)
tree55493f5c9f9c1f8c3c527cf1336463769859cfa3 /drivers
parenta3f84ca4b8dc31d0034a8b23194a4470766c938c (diff)
rt2x00: provide mac80211 a suitable max_rates value
Set up max_rates and max_rate_tries with suitable values even if we do not support the whole functionality. As rt2800 has a global fallback table we cannot specify more then one tx rate per frame but since the hw will try several different rates (based on the fallback table) we should still initialize max_rates to the maximum number of rates we are going to try. Otherwise mac80211 will truncate our reported tx rates and the rc algortihm will end up with incorrect data choosing unsuitable rates for tx. This improves throughput on rt2800 devices considerable. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
index f15832245e0..6d4df3e79be 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
@@ -2497,6 +2497,18 @@ int rt2800_probe_hw_mode(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev)
rt2x00_eeprom_addr(rt2x00dev,
EEPROM_MAC_ADDR_0));
+ /*
+ * As rt2800 has a global fallback table we cannot specify
+ * more then one tx rate per frame but since the hw will
+ * try several rates (based on the fallback table) we should
+ * still initialize max_rates to the maximum number of rates
+ * we are going to try. Otherwise mac80211 will truncate our
+ * reported tx rates and the rc algortihm will end up with
+ * incorrect data.
+ */
+ rt2x00dev->hw->max_rates = 7;
+ rt2x00dev->hw->max_rate_tries = 1;
+
rt2x00_eeprom_read(rt2x00dev, EEPROM_ANTENNA, &eeprom);
/*