On Saturday 30 June 2007 00:39:45 Daniel Drake wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > Configure it for management/ctl frames that are sent in hw. We send them > > with long preamble atm. > > I am working on patches which will help you here. Currently mac80211's > handling of short preambles is correct for hostap/master mode but not > for a STA. > > The interface I'm working on adding will be somewhat similar to the > softmac interface. That is, preambles are available on a per-frame basis > and the driver also gets a notification when the availability of short > preambles changes. > > zd1211rw seems to have similar requirements for bcm43xx. The correct > behaviour (IMO) is to send frames with long preambles until mac80211 > uses the above notification to tell you that short preambles are now > allowable. This is how zd1211rw-softmac does it. > > I have written the code for the above but have not had time to test it > yet. Hopefully within the next few days... Great! So Jiri please drop my patch infavour of Daniel's. -- 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
