On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 19:39 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > Second example, only low level driver is running calibrations and > knows if it has all rx chains available. The possibility is > that not all platforms connect all antennas or physical environment > between AP and STA cause some of the antennas not affective > we may propagate rx chain status to mac80211 but if this is not > opening too much guts. Sometimes it's just hard to keep a clean cut. That's what I wasn't really aware of. Generally I'd advocate giving mac80211 lower-level details though and let it figure out the rest, that makes it easier for the driver save copy/pasting code. > I have two more patches for these to example of course... > > >I don't actually know what that is anyway though, hence the question. > > Actually this is one of more understandable part of the spec. TBH, I've never actually tried to read it, I pick something once a while but haven't ever really tried to get a complete overview. > We > > keep adding API in mac80211 and nobody really knows when to call it. > > Maybe you should (maybe team up with Atheros for it) write a "HT > > hardware with mac80211" chapter in the documentation? > > Yes we should. :) johannes
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