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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>, John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Export short-preamble bit to drivers
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:13:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706291013.07660.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706282301.16474.flamingice@sourmilk.net>

On Friday 29 June 2007 08:01:11 Michael Wu wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2007 02:57, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > I don't think we ever care about configuring it per-frame and currently
> > can't afaik, so I don't think we can rightfully say "short preamble
> > allowed" unless we want to confuse driver authors about who is
> > responsible for then determining whether to use it or not for each
> > frame.
> >
> mac80211 does this per-frame. It does matter. Short preamble should not be 
> configured by a global bit. What does the bcm43xx firmware do with this bit?

Configure it for management/ctl frames that are sent in hw. We send them
with long preamble atm.

-- 
Greetings Michael.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-29  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-25 14:28 [PATCH] mac80211: Export short-preamble bit to drivers Michael Buesch
2007-06-27  8:55 ` Johannes Berg
2007-06-27 13:08   ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 14:30     ` Johannes Berg
2007-06-27 14:37       ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 13:33   ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 13:58     ` Johannes Berg
2007-06-28  1:40 ` Michael Wu
2007-06-28  8:35   ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-28  9:57   ` Johannes Berg
2007-06-29  6:01     ` Michael Wu
2007-06-29  6:07       ` Johannes Berg
2007-06-29  8:13       ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-06-29 22:39         ` Daniel Drake
2007-06-30 12:47           ` Michael Buesch

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