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Re: Commit 741b4fbc44 (mac80211: fix TX sequence numbers) breaks rtl8187

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 11:23 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Johannes Berg
>> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 00:21 -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
>> >
>> >> [3] /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 power on
>> >
>> > I don't think turning on power management (yes, this command is
>> > completely misnamed, it turns on power _management_ not the power, you
>> > may want "txpower auto") does anything on this chip, does it?
>> >
>> iwconfig power on is not implemented by mac80211 yet. There was one
>> patch posted that implements it.
>> I wanted to expand it but  wireless_tools 29 has a bug in parsing this
>> command. It is fixed only in 30.pre6 which is usually not in distros.
>
> Heh, fun. Time for putting that into cfg80211 instead if nobody can use
> it with wext anyway?

I've planned to but I waited for some API design suggestions  you guys
will come from OLS but I didn't get much input.
Tomas
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