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

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On Friday 29 June 2007 08:01:11 Michael Wu wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2007 02:57, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> mac80211 does this per-frame. It does matter. Short preamble should not be 
> configured by a global bit. What does the bcm43xx firmware do with this bit?

Configure it for management/ctl frames that are sent in hw. We send them
with long preamble atm.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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