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Re: [PATCH 1/1] New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211)

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On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 22:39 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> 
> I went back and looked at this, and now I remember why I wrote the code
> the way I did. The Realtek firmware handles rate control, so once I set
> IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL, I never see
> rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_SHORT_PREAMBLE nor
> tx_info->control_short_preamble.  In order to know whether to tell the
> firmware to request short preamble or not, I needed to track whether the
> sta supports it.
> 
> Do you have a suggestion for how to handle this in a better way?
> 

Ah, this makes sense. There's an rc_update call or something like that,
that might have the requisite information. Not really sure off the top
of my head.

johannes
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