On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Bruno Randolf <br1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I am not saying to drop legacy support I am saying to just support legacy via the two standard antenna model because there is nothing visible being supported which I think merits expanding a simple API for legacy. 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
