From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:33828 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751155Ab2GBNKw (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2012 09:10:52 -0400 Message-ID: <1341234650.19642.10.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20120702_151055_781651_3C5CB551) Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: reduce IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES from 5 to 4 to enable upcoming TPC support From: Johannes Berg To: Thomas Huehn Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, nbd@openwrt.org Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:10:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1341234430.19642.9.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20120702_150717_140847_49AE50F6) References: <1340981843-81779-1-git-send-email-thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> (sfid-20120629_165846_247689_05DD2B23) <1341234430.19642.9.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20120702_150717_140847_49AE50F6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 15:07 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 10:57 -0400, Thomas Huehn wrote: > > IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES are reduced from 5 to 4, as there is no hardware out > > there supporting a rate chain with 5 stages, so 4 is enough. The space that > > is freed will be used for the upcoming Transmission Power Control (TPC). > > Applied, but I rewrote your commit message a bit, a clearer message > would be appreciated. :-) Never mind, I reverted your patch as it broke a bunch of drivers. johannes