Re: [RFC] mac80211: fix short preamble determination

[Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:03:32PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Well, if you have many such devices, yes, but one might try to live
> > without such protection if there are some with very limited transmit
> > needs.
> 
> Would you then announce short preamble as the AP? That'd mean all other
> stations would use short preamble and the poor non-short-preamble STA
> would be left completely in the dark wrt. its NAV.

Yes, indeed. In other words, this would be something that could work
mostly in cases where there is a STA with very limited needs (e.g., send
measurement results once an hour, etc.). I'm not aware of any such
deployment, though.

> Ohh. Just a few days ago I sent an email with a request for
> interpretation (there really just is a typo in 802.11-2007 but...) That
> got forwarded around a lot, but I guess at least TGmb will see it :)

Yeah.. I'm sure it will show up in TGmb in Dallas meeting (mid-Nov). It
might even get fixed eventually the 802.11-2010 (or 2011, or 2012, or
who knows when.. ;-).

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA