Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] rtl8xxxu: unset the hw capability HAS_RATE_CONTROL

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 22:47 +0800, Chris Chiu wrote:
> 
> Based on the description in
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c#L32
> to L36, if we set HAS_RATE_CONTROL, which means we don't want the
> software rate control (default minstrel), then we will have to deal
> with both the rate control and the TX aggregation in the driver, and
> the .ampdu_action is not really required. 
> 

I don't think this is true. You'll probably still want to use the A-MPDU
state machine in mac80211, etc.

What you *don't* get without rate control in mac80211 is any decision on
whether or not to enable A-MPDU, but that's something you can easily do
elsewhere and just call ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session() at an
appropriate point in time.

johannes