[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, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h
index 5de0abf157e..fa1f8e3acfc 100644
--- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h
+++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_priv.h
@@ -116,7 +116,10 @@ ieee80211softmac_get_network_by_essid(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac,
 	struct ieee80211softmac_essid *essid);
 
 /* Rates related */
+int ieee80211softmac_ratesinfo_rate_supported(struct ieee80211softmac_ratesinfo *ri, u8 rate);
 u8 ieee80211softmac_lower_rate_delta(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac, u8 rate, int delta);
+void ieee80211softmac_init_txrates(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac);
+void ieee80211softmac_recalc_txrates(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac);
 static inline u8 lower_rate(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac, u8 rate) {
 	return ieee80211softmac_lower_rate_delta(mac, rate, 1);
 }