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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2006-03-23 22:43:38 +0000
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2006-03-27 14:04:13 -0500
commit2638fed7ccb07ff43cdc109dd78e821efb629995 (patch)
tree2e6889b01c9974f350f738338e9770c240c40591
parent16f4352733d19c2d496f682c08cff368ba0495d0 (diff)
downloadlinux-2638fed7ccb07ff43cdc109dd78e821efb629995.tar.gz
[PATCH] softmac: reduce default rate to 11Mbps.
We don't make much of an attempt to fall back to lower rates, and 54M just isn't reliable enough for many people. In fact, it's not clear we even set it to 11M if we're trying to associate with an 802.11b AP. This patch makes us default to 11M, which ought to work for most people. When we actually handle dynamic rate adjustment, we can reconsider the defaults -- but even then, probably it makes as much sense to start at 11M and adjust it upwards as it does to start at 54M and reduce it. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-rw-r--r--net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c17
-rw-r--r--net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c12
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
index 6f99f781bff820..60f06a31f0d1ad 100644
--- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
+++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
@@ -183,16 +183,21 @@ void ieee80211softmac_start(struct net_device *dev)
*/
if (mac->txrates_change)
oldrates = mac->txrates;
- if (ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_OFDM_MODULATION) {
- mac->txrates.default_rate = IEEE80211_OFDM_RATE_54MB;
- change |= IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_DEFAULT;
- mac->txrates.default_fallback = IEEE80211_OFDM_RATE_24MB;
- change |= IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_DEFAULT_FBACK;
- } else if (ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_CCK_MODULATION) {
+ /* FIXME: We don't correctly handle backing down to lower
+ rates, so 801.11g devices start off at 11M for now. People
+ can manually change it if they really need to, but 11M is
+ more reliable. Note similar logic in
+ ieee80211softmac_wx_set_rate() */
+ if (ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_CCK_MODULATION) {
mac->txrates.default_rate = IEEE80211_CCK_RATE_11MB;
change |= IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_DEFAULT;
mac->txrates.default_fallback = IEEE80211_CCK_RATE_5MB;
change |= IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_DEFAULT_FBACK;
+ } else if (ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_OFDM_MODULATION) {
+ mac->txrates.default_rate = IEEE80211_OFDM_RATE_54MB;
+ change |= IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_DEFAULT;
+ mac->txrates.default_fallback = IEEE80211_OFDM_RATE_24MB;
+ change |= IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_DEFAULT_FBACK;
} else
assert(0);
if (mac->txrates_change)
diff --git a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
index e1a9bc6d36fffb..b559aa9b550771 100644
--- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
+++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
@@ -135,11 +135,15 @@ ieee80211softmac_wx_set_rate(struct net_device *net_dev,
int err = -EINVAL;
if (in_rate == -1) {
- /* automatic detect */
- if (ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_OFDM_MODULATION)
- in_rate = 54000000;
- else
+ /* FIXME: We don't correctly handle backing down to lower
+ rates, so 801.11g devices start off at 11M for now. People
+ can manually change it if they really need to, but 11M is
+ more reliable. Note similar logic in
+ ieee80211softmac_wx_set_rate() */
+ if (ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_CCK_MODULATION)
in_rate = 11000000;
+ else
+ in_rate = 54000000;
}
switch (in_rate) {