On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Krishna Chaitanya > <chaitanya.mgit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez >> <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Krishna Chaitanya >>> <chaitanya.mgit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/005-make-genregdb.awk-skip-antenna-gain.patch?rev=40296 >>> >>> This just ignores antenna gain as it was useless. >> That actually fixes the issue of setting tx power :-). In the new >> db.txt format there >> is tx power is not present, so the awk script parses the tx power as >> antenna gain. > > Is this patch not upstream? Or do you mean that the db.txt format > causes an issue for 3.10 kernels which do not have this patch when the > internal regdb is used? If so that's a good corner case that I had not > considered -- the removal of the antenna gain for future releases of > db.txt obviously would have had an impact on older kernels with an awk > script expecting something different. > Right, this patch is not upstream. Current kernels do not work with new db.txt format when itnernal regdb is enabled. > We need a solution for this and thanks for reporting this. Since we > have to support both for older kernels I think we will need to modify > the awk script to pick up on the differences... that's the only thing > I can think of. That or break the db.txt to not work with older > kernels, but we don't want that... Can you hack up a solution now that > I've identified the issue? Otherwise I can look at it soon. I plan to submit a patch for awk script which can handle both db.txt formats but could not execute it. Will try to submit a hack soon. -- 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
