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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Export short-preamble bit to drivers

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On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 18:40 -0700, Michael Wu wrote:
> On Monday 25 June 2007 07:28, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > +#define IEEE80211_CONF_SHORT_PREAMBLE	(1<<3) /* use short preamble
> > +						* with IEEE 802.11b */
> Shouldn't this be more of a "short preamble allowed" bit rather than "use 
> short preamble"? After all, short preamble is usually configured per frame.

I don't think we ever care about configuring it per-frame and currently
can't afaik, so I don't think we can rightfully say "short preamble
allowed" unless we want to confuse driver authors about who is
responsible for then determining whether to use it or not for each
frame.

johannes

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