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Re: [RFC] mt76: add 3dBm for reporting txpower also for 1x1

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On 2019-03-13 14:34, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> It's not clear for my why we should add 3dBm for 2x2 devices
> and not for 1x1. 3dBm looks rater like minimal txpower and
> hardware transmit at 3dBm + dev->txpower_cur / 2 .
> 
> With the change reported txpower value are closer to regulatory
> values, but honestly I have no idea what should be reported.
> 
> Perhaps also some better comment should be added.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
The reason why we add 3dBm is because using two chains to transmit in
the worst case (from regulatory point of view) doubles the transmit
power (= +3dBm). There's no reason to do the same for 1x1.

- Felix



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