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Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] ath9k_hw: clean up tx power handling

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On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2011-09-19 11:54 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>>> <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Felix Fietkau<nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  I looked at the other ath driver and I see no indication that it's
>>>>> related
>>>>>  to DFS in any way.
>>>>
>>>>  I have verified this just now as well, it seems it was only used to
>>>>  support an ioctl to userspace to enable users to update a tpscale
>>>>  value but I see no documentation about this. Next question is who in
>>>>  usersapce sets this. I wonder if its done through userspace after
>>>>  measuring some TPC reports from STAs.
>>>
>>> So this comes from supporting a "TR-098" specification, which seems to
>>> be the "Internet Gateway Device data model for the CPE WAN Management
>>> Protocol". I haven't yet been able to map this to the specification
>>> respective component:
>>>
>>> http://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-098.pdf
>>
>> Interesting. That definitely supports my point that ath9k is the wrong place
>> for something like this to be. Let's just get rid of it.
>
> Yeah, I'm now convinced :) die code. But please do add some blurb
> about this tumor the code had.

In fact removing the tumor through a separate patch would be appreciated.

  Luis
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