From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: greearb@candelatech.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] wireless: Support ht-capabilities over-rides.
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:04:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321610663.10266.20.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321566884-31757-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> (sfid-20111117_225454_269234_8D9DA167)
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 13:54 -0800, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>
> This allows users to disable features such as HT, HT40,
> and to modify the MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU settings for
> drivers that support it.
>
> The MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU features that may be disabled are
> are reported in the phy-info netlink message as a mask.
>
> Attemping to disable features that are not supported will
> take no affect, but will not return errors. This is to aid
> backwards compatibility in user-space apps that may not be
> clever enough to deal with parsing the the capabilities mask.
>
> This patch only enables the infrastructure. An additional
> patch will enable the feature in mac80211.
Looks OK to me.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-18 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-17 21:54 [PATCH v9 1/2] wireless: Support ht-capabilities over-rides greearb
2011-11-17 21:54 ` [PATCH v9 2/2] mac80211: Support ht-cap over-rides greearb
2011-11-18 10:15 ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-18 17:09 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-18 17:28 ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-18 17:31 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-18 17:35 ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-18 10:04 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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