From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com,
johannes@sipsolutions.net, nbd@openwrt.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: reduce IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES from 5 to 4 to enable upcoming TPC support
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 23:09:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201207062309.41859.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341251176-31113-1-git-send-email-thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
On Monday, July 02, 2012 07:46:16 PM Thomas Huehn wrote:
> IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES are reduced from 5 to 4, as there
> is no current hardware supporting a rate chain with 5 multi
> rate stages (mrr), so 4 mrr stages are sufficient. The
> memory that is freed within the ieee80211_tx_info struct will
> be used to implement the upcoming Transmission Power Control
> (TPC). This patch is a pre-requisite to TPC.
>
> Suggested-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
> ---
Tested-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Sorry for the long "pause". But your mail unfortunately got
*redirected* through the spam bin.
Anyway, I've just tested p54(usb) and carl9170 with your patch
applied. So far, everything seems to be fine.
Regards,
Christian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-06 21:12 UTC|newest]
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2012-07-02 17:46 [PATCH v2] mac80211: reduce IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES from 5 to 4 to enable upcoming TPC support Thomas Huehn
2012-07-06 21:09 ` Christian Lamparter [this message]
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