From: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>,
johannes@sipsolutions.net, linville@tuxdriver.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] cfg80211: Add nl80211 antenna configuration
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:59:16 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008021259.16623.br1@einfach.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinH-2VNYGGBVha-M2HOzYJYe_GBb3Ww1V6i6Hyc@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri July 30 2010 00:09:17 you wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> wrote:
> > i already tried to explain several times why FIXED_A, FIXED_B, or
> > DIVERSITY is not enough even for "legacy". please re-read the mails and
> > the description of the first patch - i really don't want to re-iterate
> > it *again*. thanks :)
>
> What legacy device and respective device driver do we support upstream
> on the kernel that has this sort of extra antenna setup? Do you
> foresee this happening?
right now, probably none. but it's easy to this to ath5k. madwifi supported it
and it's just a matter of setting tx and rx antennas (it's already there as
AR5K_ANTMODE_DEBUG). i might add it, just to make my case... ;)
anyhow, i can see your point of view now. but while you might not care about
anything before 802.11n - there are millions of what you call 'legacy' chips
out there (and you guys are actually still selling them!), so i think it's
worth it to properly support them, especially since i still believe that my
proposal is usable for both 802.11n and before.
bruno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-02 3:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-27 9:47 [PATCH v4 0/3] Antenna configuration Bruno Randolf
2010-07-27 9:48 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] cfg80211: Add nl80211 antenna configuration Bruno Randolf
2010-07-27 10:05 ` Johannes Berg
2010-07-28 2:03 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-07-27 16:19 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-27 16:39 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-07-27 16:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-28 2:06 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-07-28 17:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-28 17:50 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-07-28 21:15 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-28 21:26 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-07-28 21:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-28 22:05 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-07-28 22:14 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-29 0:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-29 2:11 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-07-29 15:09 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-08-02 3:59 ` Bruno Randolf [this message]
2010-08-02 5:31 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-27 9:48 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] mac80211: Add " Bruno Randolf
2010-07-27 9:48 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] ath5k: Add support for " Bruno Randolf
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