On 07/08/2012 09:47 PM, Thomas Huehn wrote: > Hi Arend, > > This patch has the following goal. To implement Transmission Power > Control (TPC) in the mac80211 subsystem, I remove the STA pointer from > the ieee_tx_info structure to gain free mem for TPC annotation and I put > the sta on the stack to pass it to each driver function in the tx-path. > The broadcom brcmsmac is the only driver where the ieee_tx_info is > somewhat stored and therefore the sta point is not as straight removable > as for the other drivers. This patch resolved that issue. > Please have a look at my recent patch [PATCH] mac80211: Add transmit > power control support (TPC) where I have included this one again with > the full story in the code. > > Greetings Thomas > Hi Thomas, I understand now. I just found the rate_driver_info somewhat obscure. I looked into mac80211.h for the description and found that those fields are intended for internal driver use. I will comment on the original patch. Gr. AvS -- 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
