From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.181]:45709 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751249AbXIMXeV (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:34:21 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so1412776pyb for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <43e72e890709131634r591b6db4u9f092470567b1cb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:34:20 -0400 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Johannes Berg" Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: remove turbo modes Cc: linux-wireless , "John W. Linville" , "Zhu Yi" , "Jiri Slaby" , "Michael Wu" In-Reply-To: <1189192606.28781.189.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 References: <1188485253.3978.22.camel@johannes.berg> <43e72e890709071014w1f37b4acjac3c98c306a965de@mail.gmail.com> <1189192606.28781.189.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 9/7/07, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:14 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > Can you elaborate a bit on what places (one would suffice) we should > > be checking for them that would prevent failure so that we know where > > to correct this later when we want to add support for these modes in > > ath5k? > > There's the monitor stuff which certainly wasn't correct, turbo A surely > uses OFDM/5GHz. Also, ISTR that there was something with turbo G not > handled properly, but it's been a while, sorry. > > I'm not sure what we should do, I'm undecided about adding a whole bunch > of proprietary rates back since these are basically only supported by > one hardware. Let's discuss good ways to do this when you get around to > it. The last point I think is enough to give them the boot. Will post patches based on this work with some small minor changes and also for ath5k. Luis