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From: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] nl80211: Export available antennas
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:30:16 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012061730.16102.br1@einfach.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291623453.3506.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>

On Mon December 6 2010 17:17:33 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 12:45 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> > +		NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_ANTENNA_AVAIL,
> > +			    dev->wiphy.available_antennas);
> 
> I think you should not advertise this unless it's non-zero, and unless
> also the set/get callbacks are available.

I don't. Please check the context of this patch, esp patch 1. of this series.

> Similarly, I think you shouldn't advertise the set/get CMDs when the
> available antennas aren't set.

There are no set/get commands for antennas since you preferred putting it into 
wiphy info.

> Finally, you should check for nl80211 that the given tx/rx masks fall
> into the available antennas mask.

Allright, I can do that. Would you prefer to reject the command in this case 
or just apply the available mask?

bruno

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-06  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-06  3:45 [PATCH 1/3] cfg80211: Add antenna availability information Bruno Randolf
2010-12-06  3:45 ` [PATCH 2/3] nl80211: Export available antennas Bruno Randolf
2010-12-06  8:17   ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-06  8:30     ` Bruno Randolf [this message]
2010-12-06  8:33       ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-07  2:17         ` Bruno Randolf
2010-12-07  9:35           ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-08  3:45             ` Bruno Randolf
2010-12-06  3:45 ` [PATCH 3/3] ath5k: Set available antenna information for cfg80211 Bruno Randolf
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-12-16  2:30 [PATCH 1/3] cfg80211: Separate available antennas for RX and TX Bruno Randolf
2010-12-16  2:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] nl80211: Export available antennas Bruno Randolf

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