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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: implement support for configuring antenna gain

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On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 15:06 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> Report the maximum allowable extra antenna gain to the driver to allow
> it to reduce the tx power even further based on internal data

I don't quite understand the maximum thing here - what's a user to do
who has an antenna that goes over? Is that then intended to not be
supported? That seems odd. A very high gain antenna might just result in
signal distortions, but what's the reason for limiting it this way?

johannes

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