From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [wireless-next PATCH 1/5] mac80211: Support forcing station to disable 11n.
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:51:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320256263.7846.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB17103.70506@candelatech.com>
On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 09:34 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > You misunderstood -- I said fullmac drivers, not differences between
> > ath9k, iwlwifi etc. Other cfg80211 drivers, not other mac80211 drivers.
>
> Can you at least point me to some existing code that does a similar
> check? I have no idea of what a fullmac driver even does. I can test
> and eventually somewhat understand the paths for ath9k, but I have no
> ability to test fullmac (as far as I know).
Well ideally you have two patches -- one for cfg80211, and one for
mac80211. Then you can test the cfg80211 one w/o mac80211 patches, so it
behaves as though it didn't support it, and with the mac80211 patch it
sets the flag to support it. Just think about drivers like ath6kl.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-02 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-28 5:11 [wireless-next PATCH 1/5] mac80211: Support forcing station to disable 11n greearb
2011-10-28 5:11 ` [wireless-next PATCH 2/5] wifi: Support disabling ht40 greearb
2011-10-28 8:09 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-28 16:25 ` Ben Greear
2011-10-28 5:11 ` [wireless-next PATCH 3/5] wifi: Allow overriding some HT information greearb
2011-10-28 8:12 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-28 16:33 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-02 8:13 ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-02 16:59 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-02 17:49 ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-02 18:03 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-03 8:32 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-28 5:11 ` [wireless-next PATCH 4/5] wifi: Warn if cannot add station debugfs entries greearb
2011-10-28 8:13 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-28 16:13 ` Ben Greear
2011-10-28 5:11 ` [wireless-next PATCH 5/5] wifi-debugfs: Fix AMSDU rate printout greearb
2011-10-28 8:13 ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-17 17:49 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-17 18:03 ` John W. Linville
2011-10-28 5:15 ` [wireless-next PATCH 1/5] mac80211: Support forcing station to disable 11n Ben Greear
2011-10-28 8:08 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-28 16:24 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-02 7:56 ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-02 16:37 ` Ben Greear
2011-10-28 18:55 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-02 7:53 ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-02 16:34 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-02 17:51 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-11-03 6:04 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-03 8:30 ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-03 18:17 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-04 14:42 ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-04 16:11 ` Ben Greear
2011-11-04 16:17 ` Johannes Berg
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