> On 29. Aug 2022, at 16:45, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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? Good point, we can test this with 5.15.63 by enabling the OpenWrt testing kernel … would that be ok ? > > johannes Greetings Thomas
