From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:59928 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755795Ab1KBRvH (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2011 13:51:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [wireless-next PATCH 1/5] mac80211: Support forcing station to disable 11n. From: Johannes Berg To: Ben Greear Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4EB17103.70506@candelatech.com> References: <1319778680-11405-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> (sfid-20111028_071135_777672_88A08497) <1319789318.3914.10.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <4EAAFAA7.8090403@candelatech.com> (sfid-20111028_205543_472872_4928ADE0) <1320220415.3950.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <4EB17103.70506@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:51:03 +0100 Message-ID: <1320256263.7846.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20111102_185112_125896_4098A33D) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 09:34 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > > You misunderstood -- I said fullmac drivers, not differences between > > ath9k, iwlwifi etc. Other cfg80211 drivers, not other mac80211 drivers. > > Can you at least point me to some existing code that does a similar > check? I have no idea of what a fullmac driver even does. I can test > and eventually somewhat understand the paths for ath9k, but I have no > ability to test fullmac (as far as I know). Well ideally you have two patches -- one for cfg80211, and one for mac80211. Then you can test the cfg80211 one w/o mac80211 patches, so it behaves as though it didn't support it, and with the mac80211 patch it sets the flag to support it. Just think about drivers like ath6kl. johannes