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Re: [PATCHv2] mac80211: enable TPC through mac80211 stack

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On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 14:40 +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:

> In pending driver (ath9k) patches TPC related info in hw conf and
> bss_conf are not used for the same purpose. The first one is used to
> configure HW TPC registers, since TPC should be enabled in hw if there
> is at least one interface where TPC has been configured, whereas the
> latter it use to figure out if the transmitted frame belongs to a vif
> where TPC has been previously enabled. If I do not set TPC info in hw
> conf I have to loop over all vif every time TPC configuration is
> applied from mac80211, since ath9k uses just hw conf structure to set
> TX power info. Maybe that solution is a little bit tricky. What do you
> think? Sorry if in previous emails I was not so clear :)

But you also didn't really implement that logic in mac80211?

IMHO this is a driver quirk that the driver should worry about.

johannes

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