From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, kvalo@codeaurora.org,
Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211)
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:17:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1441275474.2565.18.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wrfjvbbsp6ot.fsf@redhat.com>
On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 22:39 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>
> I went back and looked at this, and now I remember why I wrote the code
> the way I did. The Realtek firmware handles rate control, so once I set
> IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL, I never see
> rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_SHORT_PREAMBLE nor
> tx_info->control_short_preamble. In order to know whether to tell the
> firmware to request short preamble or not, I needed to track whether the
> sta supports it.
>
> Do you have a suggestion for how to handle this in a better way?
>
Ah, this makes sense. There's an rc_update call or something like that,
that might have the requisite information. Not really sure off the top
of my head.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-03 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-29 21:18 [PATCH 0/1] rtl8xxxu (mac80211) driver for rtl8188[cr]u/rtl8192cu/rtl8723au Jes.Sorensen
2015-08-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 1/1] New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211) Jes.Sorensen
2015-08-30 4:42 ` Larry Finger
2015-08-30 18:41 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-08-30 21:02 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-08-30 23:51 ` Larry Finger
2015-08-31 2:39 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-08-31 15:45 ` Larry Finger
2015-08-31 23:43 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-09-01 0:16 ` Larry Finger
2015-09-01 4:54 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-09-01 5:17 ` Larry Finger
2015-09-01 5:26 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-08-31 1:06 ` Joe Perches
2015-08-31 13:11 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-08-31 8:19 ` Johannes Berg
2015-08-31 14:48 ` Johannes Berg
2015-08-31 23:42 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-09-01 15:07 ` Johannes Berg
2015-09-03 1:59 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-09-03 2:39 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-09-03 10:17 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-09-04 18:24 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-09-04 18:25 ` Johannes Berg
2015-09-05 4:02 ` Sujith Manoharan
2015-09-17 16:46 ` Johannes Berg
2015-10-05 18:49 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-10-05 18:56 ` Johannes Berg
2015-10-05 19:04 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-10-05 19:12 ` Johannes Berg
2015-10-05 19:19 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-10-05 19:20 ` Johannes Berg
2015-10-05 19:53 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-09-03 10:17 ` Johannes Berg
2015-09-04 17:48 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-09-04 18:02 ` Johannes Berg
2015-10-08 16:23 ` Jakub Sitnicki
2015-10-08 19:09 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-10-08 20:33 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2015-10-08 21:06 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-10-08 21:03 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-10-10 4:17 ` Taehee Yoo
2015-08-30 16:49 ` [PATCH 0/1] rtl8xxxu (mac80211) driver for rtl8188[cr]u/rtl8192cu/rtl8723au Larry Finger
2015-08-30 18:45 ` Jes Sorensen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-30 21:02 [PATCH v2 " Jes.Sorensen
2015-08-30 21:02 ` [PATCH 1/1] New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211) Jes.Sorensen
2015-09-06 14:59 ` Kalle Valo
2015-09-06 17:06 ` Larry Finger
2015-09-07 1:41 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-09-07 1:40 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-09-07 13:20 ` Kalle Valo
2015-09-07 21:08 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-10-15 0:44 [PATCH v3 0/1] rtl8xxxu (mac80211) driver for rtl8188[cr]u/rtl8192cu/rtl8723au Jes.Sorensen
2015-10-15 0:44 ` [PATCH 1/1] New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211) Jes.Sorensen
2015-10-15 12:09 ` Bruno Randolf
2015-10-15 12:16 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-10-23 13:07 Xose Vazquez Perez
2015-10-23 14:00 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-10-23 16:09 ` Jes Sorensen
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