On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Fresh from Intel http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521885843 Enjoy. Tomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
