On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 11:14 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> > Allow setting TX and RX antenna configuration via nl80211/cfg80211. >> >> I think we should call this TX / RX chainmask given that with 802.11n >> hardware this is what this is called. > > Well, but even with 11n hw you might be able to select _antennas_ rather > than chains. I'm convinced we'll need to differentiate that very > closely, and 11g hw has only antenna, not chain, selection. Heh you're right, you might have for example 3 antennas but only two RX chains, for example. I still think it would be good for us to figure out a way to bring these two notions together on a standard API for both 11n and legacy, if possible. Luis -- 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
