From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:37708 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753302AbXHFVfk (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:35:40 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: [RFC V2] bcm43xx-mac80211: Add TX power set file to debugfs Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 23:35:14 +0200 Cc: Larry Finger , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <46b78ac2.M4X/XQ9LXYHUe/aO%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <200708062307.40590.mb@bu3sch.de> <46B791EF.7000105@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: <46B791EF.7000105@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200708062335.14693.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Monday 06 August 2007 23:26:07 Larry Finger wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > No, why do you poke with this at all. > > This completely breaks power adjustment from mac80211. > > Simply don't touch bcm43xx_dev_config :) > > > > The problem is that mac80211 never seems to do any power adjustment. The funny 0x1b value for power > level that I wondered about earlier is coming from a value of 27 dBm that is set in > net/mac80211/regdomain.c, and conf->power_level doesn't get any information from anywhere else that > I see. > > Do you know how to get mac80211 to change what it is sending to us? I think we have an ioctl. But it's probably the task of the rc algorithm to adjust power. -- Greetings Michael.