On Jan 24, 2008 8:38 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate > registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The > old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k) > are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations > can be done. > > Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the > IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be > unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants > to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty > much required for travelling. > > Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA > mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added > to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be > empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to > the BSS conf stuff. > > I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit > power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work. True, total havoc > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Changes: > v1..v3: <untracked> > v4: fix bugs in iwl4965 Also inserting few, actually drawing it unusable. You are lucky we like you here :) The question is how we handle this?. Do you want to resubmit this huge patch or we fix it somehow over it... Tomas > - 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
