On Fri July 30 2010 00:09:17 you wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Bruno Randolf <br1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > i already tried to explain several times why FIXED_A, FIXED_B, or > > DIVERSITY is not enough even for "legacy". please re-read the mails and > > the description of the first patch - i really don't want to re-iterate > > it *again*. thanks :) > > What legacy device and respective device driver do we support upstream > on the kernel that has this sort of extra antenna setup? Do you > foresee this happening? right now, probably none. but it's easy to this to ath5k. madwifi supported it and it's just a matter of setting tx and rx antennas (it's already there as AR5K_ANTMODE_DEBUG). i might add it, just to make my case... ;) anyhow, i can see your point of view now. but while you might not care about anything before 802.11n - there are millions of what you call 'legacy' chips out there (and you guys are actually still selling them!), so i think it's worth it to properly support them, especially since i still believe that my proposal is usable for both 802.11n and before. bruno -- 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
