Re: [RFC v2] mac80211: minstrel_ht: do not set RTS/CTS flag for fallback rates

[Johannes Berg]

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