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On 09/21/2012 09:40 AM, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Ben Greear wrote:
>> Can you document what the various settings mean?
>
> 1 = Enable, 0 = Disable. :)
>
>> Also, what is the difference between antenna diversity
>> and selecting the tx/rx chainmask?
>
> Diversity is used to select which antenna to receive on based on RSSI.
> (See antenna.c)

Ok, that sounds interesting.

With the chainmask stuff, it turns out it was bad to set it through
debugfs...  Can diversity be enabled/disabled through debugfs
without worry?

Thanks,
Ben


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