On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 03:07:39PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > Similarly to CTS protection, whether short preambles are used for 802.11b > transmissions should be a per-subif setting, not device global. > > For STAs, this patch makes short preamble handling automatic based on the ERP > IE. For APs, hostapd still uses the prism ioctls, but the write ioctl has been > restricted to AP-only subifs. > > ieee80211_txrx_data.short_preamble (an unused field) was removed. > > Unfortunately, some API changes were required for the following functions: > - ieee80211_generic_frame_duration > - ieee80211_rts_duration > - ieee80211_ctstoself_duration > - ieee80211_rts_get > - ieee80211_ctstoself_get > Affected drivers (bcm43xx, rt2x00 and rtl8187) were updated accordingly. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx> Jiri, Michael -- this applies to upstream w/ just some offsets if you ignore the driver bits that aren't upstream. I'll be happy to handle the patch monkeying if you are happy w/ this patch. John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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
