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Re: [PATCH 2/4] nl80211: back to default bitrate_mask correctly

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On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 17:00 +0100, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
> On 3 December 2013 15:20, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 09:50 +0100, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
> >> In case of empty NL80211_ATTR_TX_RATES attribute
> >> in nl80211_set_tx_bitrate_mask() function back to
> >> default bitrate mask.

> > Why?
> In case we will execute:
> iw wlanX set bitrate
> with this patch we will back to default - defined by capabilities
> (driver) startup values for both legacy and ht (and VHT with last
> patch).

Maybe add something like that to the commit log - just a single line
would be ok (e.g. "back to the default bitrate mask, to be able to reset
the state") or so?

> Without this patch I don't see an option how to do that from iw. Or I
> miss something

You're right - how did I ever take this code into the tree? Ugh. It
seems it should be reset more often, but I guess we're stuck with it.

johannes

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