From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>, Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] mac80211: minstrel_ht: do not set RTS/CTS flag for fallback rates
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:34:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e257568948a1af079275df1a904ae04805ead4c7.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211126152558.4d9fbce3@gmx.net>
On Fri, 2021-11-26 at 15:25 +0100, Peter Seiderer wrote:
>
> >
> > If you don't want this behavior, I'm fine with adding a way to
> > explicitly disable it. However, I do think leaving it on by default
> > makes sense.
>
> I expected this (as otherwise the flag setting would not be there) ;-)
>
To be fair, that setting (RTS threshold) has been there for 20 years or
more, and comes from a much simpler time when the reasoning for RTS/CTS
was mostly about hidden stations, not about protecting the transmissions
from older clients that don't understand the newer PHY protocols, etc.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-29 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-16 21:28 [RFC v2] mac80211: minstrel_ht: do not set RTS/CTS flag for fallback rates Peter Seiderer
2021-11-26 12:47 ` Felix Fietkau
2021-11-26 14:25 ` Peter Seiderer
2021-11-29 8:34 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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