Re: [Proposal]TX flags

[David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:59:34PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 20:47 +0200, G?bor Stefanik wrote:
> 
> > Alternatively, the meanings of the {0,0} and {1,1} cases could be
> > switched around (making the {0,0} case more logical, at the expense of
> > the {1,1} one):
> > 
> > TX Flags absent: Use RTS & CTS as needed.
> > TX Flags present: {
> > RTS=0, CTS=0: Use RTS & CTS as needed.
> > RTS=0, CTS=1: Use CTS-to-self.
> > RTS=1, CTS=0: Use RTS/CTS-handshake.
> > RTS=1, CTS=1: Use neither RTS nor CTS.
> > }
> > 
> > (By reading the second proposal again, I find it more and more
> > sympathetic... but let the discussion decide.)
> 
> That _works_, but is impossible to describe in any feature discovery.

The discovery mechanism that we have begun to discuss would have a hard
time describing that feature at its current level of development, but
that is not the only feature that it will have a hard time describing.
Feature discovery may need more development before we measure new
proposals against it.  What do you think?

Dave

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