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Re: [RFC V2] bcm43xx-mac80211: Add TX power set file to debugfs

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On 8/7/07, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday 06 August 2007 23:26:07 Larry Finger wrote:
> > Michael Buesch wrote:
> > >
> > > No, why do you poke with this at all.
> > > This completely breaks power adjustment from mac80211.
> > > Simply don't touch bcm43xx_dev_config :)
> > >
> >
> > The problem is that mac80211 never seems to do any power adjustment. The funny 0x1b value for power
> > level that I wondered about earlier is coming from a value of 27 dBm that is set in
> > net/mac80211/regdomain.c, and conf->power_level doesn't get any information from anywhere else that
> > I see.
> >
> > Do you know how to get mac80211 to change what it is sending to us?
>
> I think we have an ioctl.
> But it's probably the task of the rc algorithm to adjust power.
>
11k and 11h have TPC features in as well.
Even though tx power affects link quality it is not usually part of
rate scaling.
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> Greetings Michael.
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