On Friday 27 July 2012 18:00:09 Thomas Huehn wrote: > This patch adds support to annotate and change the power-level of ACK > packets. To map hardware specific ack power capabilities to mac80211 > one new hw flag is defined: > > @IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_TPC_ACK_GLOBAL: > Power level of ack packets is adjustable and processed in a > global manner, per hw rather than per ack packet or link. > > The struct hw_config is extended by ack_power a global power level in > dBm to be used for all acknowledgement_packets. A new config change > event IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_ACK_POWER is defined to reacte with driver > specific function calls to ack_power changes from the mac80211. I know this is kind of an odd. But as carl9170 has TPC settings for BlockACK, CF-End and QoS-Null frames, it wouldn't be possible to extend "ACK" to "response". NB: The HW has also TPC control registers for ERP(RTS/CTS) but that's sort of a different issue. Regards, Chr -- 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
