From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Avri Altman <avri.altman@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: tell drivers the user TX power restriction
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:45:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1422006324.2728.13.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421784945-7815-1-git-send-email-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 22:15 +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> From: Avri Altman <avri.altman@intel.com>
>
> When a tx power restriction is set, mac80211 protects its downstream
> stack by taking min(user, regulatory, 11h ap). However, we should allow
> drivers to use that value as it is - on their own risk.
> This might come handy, when tx power is set per phy. As mac80211 has
> only a concept of "per-vif" tx power, it iterates over the active vifs,
> and sets their tx power limit accordingly. Allowing this value to
> proliferate downstream unchanged, the driver might use this legacy
> api differently, e.g. to set tx power for the whole device.
This patch doesn't apply because I applied another patch (that was sent
many times well before this one.)
Please rework this patch on top of the current mac80211-next tree.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-23 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-20 20:15 [PATCH] mac80211: tell drivers the user TX power restriction Emmanuel Grumbach
2015-01-20 22:50 ` Arend van Spriel
2015-01-21 16:46 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-21 17:54 ` Arend van Spriel
2015-01-21 20:04 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-23 9:45 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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