From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "Jouni Malinen" <jkm@devicescape.com>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] d80211: Add API to generate RTS and CTS-to-self frames
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:53:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702051753.45093.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070205164738.GA31058@instant802.com>
On Monday 05 February 2007 17:47, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:28:46PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
>
> > As I said in response to Johannes' comment, if a driver needs just
> > the duration, we should export the functions to calculate it
> > and remove the calculation from the tx_control and the tx_control
> > setup path.
>
> In that case, I would like to see this change being included in the same
> patch/patchset.. Without this, I can only NAK this kind of change since
> it removes functionality needed for some designs and that is not
> something I would like to see happening with net/d80211 since the goal
> is to allow all reasonable hardware designs to work with it.
Ok, I already resent the patchset. ;)
> > Currently there is no driver using it, so I simply removed it.
>
> There are, but maybe not in wireless-dev.git.
>
> > BTW: Which cards need the duration, but not the whole frame?
>
> Any card that supports different transmit rates for hw retries involving
> RTS/CTS/fragmentation (e.g., Atheros).
Ok, nice.
I just want to make sure that we don't have unused features (aka bloat)
in the stack.
--
Greetings Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-05 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-05 13:12 [PATCH] d80211: Add API to generate RTS and CTS-to-self frames Michael Buesch
2007-02-05 13:14 ` [PATCH] bcm43xx-d80211: Use d80211 API to generate RTS/CTS frames Michael Buesch
2007-02-05 13:15 ` [PATCH] rt2x00-d80211: " Michael Buesch
2007-02-05 13:31 ` [PATCH] d80211: Add API to generate RTS and CTS-to-self frames Michael Buesch
2007-02-05 13:43 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 13:53 ` Michael Buesch
2007-02-05 14:58 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-02-05 15:28 ` Michael Buesch
2007-02-05 16:47 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-02-05 16:53 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
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