On Monday 05 February 2007 17:47, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:28:46PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > As I said in response to Johannes' comment, if a driver needs just > > the duration, we should export the functions to calculate it > > and remove the calculation from the tx_control and the tx_control > > setup path. > > In that case, I would like to see this change being included in the same > patch/patchset.. Without this, I can only NAK this kind of change since > it removes functionality needed for some designs and that is not > something I would like to see happening with net/d80211 since the goal > is to allow all reasonable hardware designs to work with it. Ok, I already resent the patchset. ;) > > Currently there is no driver using it, so I simply removed it. > > There are, but maybe not in wireless-dev.git. > > > BTW: Which cards need the duration, but not the whole frame? > > Any card that supports different transmit rates for hw retries involving > RTS/CTS/fragmentation (e.g., Atheros). Ok, nice. I just want to make sure that we don't have unused features (aka bloat) in the stack. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
