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From:   Toke =?utf-8?Q?H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen?= <toke@kernel.org>
To:     Evelyn Tsai <evelyn.tsai@mediatek.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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        Evelyn Tsai <evelyn.tsai@mediatek.com>,
        Sujuan Chen <sujuan.chen@mediatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Use ATF by NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_AIRTIME_FAIRNESS
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Evelyn Tsai <evelyn.tsai@mediatek.com> writes:

> Except for using debugfs to change airtime_flags (AIRTIME_USE_TX/RX),
> turn ATF into a proper NL80211_EXT_FEATURE, so the driver can determine
> whether using airtime scheduling.

So the reason we didn't do this from the beginning was that the driver
would just not call ieee80211_register_airtime() if it did not support
airtime fairness. Why is this not applicable to your use case?

-Toke