[PATCH v2 3/4] mac80211: initialize rate control earlier for tdls station

[Arik Nemtsov]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 12:02 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Johannes Berg
>> <johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 10:21 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
>> >
>> >> > Arik, you have a similar patch handling only NSS. Does this one look
>> >> > fine to you, and would it solve the problem your other patch solved?
>> >>
>> >> Well currently iwlmvm requires the NSS to be set before
>> >> IEEE80211_STA_ASSOC (earlier), so this doesn't help directly.
>> >> I could change mvm a bit to make it work, but I don't really see a
>> >> good reason for it :)
>> >>
>> >> The patch looks good. Shouldn't introduce new issues (at least for iwlwifi).
>> >
>> > Ok, thanks. Do you think it would be possible to move all of this before
>> > ASSOC?
>>
>> We can probably move his rate_control_rate_init() to assoc, since we have this:
>
> And doing so would also address the nss problem, right? IIRC that's done
> in the rate control init inline.

Right.

Arik