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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: tell drivers the user TX power restriction

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On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 22:15 +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> From: Avri Altman <avri.altman@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When a tx power restriction is set, mac80211 protects its downstream
> stack by taking min(user, regulatory, 11h ap). However, we should allow
> drivers to use that value as it is - on their own risk.
> This might come handy, when tx power is set per phy. As mac80211 has
> only a concept of "per-vif" tx power, it iterates over the active vifs,
> and sets their tx power limit accordingly. Allowing this value to
> proliferate downstream unchanged, the driver might use this legacy
> api differently, e.g. to set tx power for the whole device.

This patch doesn't apply because I applied another patch (that was sent
many times well before this one.)

Please rework this patch on top of the current mac80211-next tree.

johannes

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