On Mon, 2022-08-29 at 16:41 +0200, Jonas Jelonek wrote: > Transmit power control (TPC) per packet hence per station can be used to > manage interference and increase overall spatial reuse and therefore > increases sum throughput in WiFi networks with multiple APs and STAs. > Although several of today's wifi chips, e.g., from QCA and from Mediatek > support fine-grained TPC per packet, the Linux mac80211 layer does not > provide support this annotation nor control yet. > > This series proposes several changes to introduce TPC support in > mac80211, in particular to annotate tx-power per packet/per mrr stage in > the Tx control path. > The patches include new nembers in the Tx control path structs, a > modified tx-power level support annotation, hardware flags and an > utility function for the convenient use of struct ieee80211_rate_status > (introduced by 44fa75f207d8a106bc75e6230db61e961fdbf8a8) for tx-power > status report in drivers. > > Compile-Tested: current wireless-next tree with all flags on > Tested-on PCEngines APU with ath9k WiFi device on OpenWrt Linux > Kernel 5.10.137 > That seems just a little old? Not sure I'd trust that given the major changes in the tree recently? johannes
