From: "Jouni Malinen" <jkm@devicescape.com>
To: Mohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jkmaline@cc.hut.fi
Subject: Re: 3945 driver using d80211
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:49:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060809154958.GA26616@instant802.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060809000631.GH25393@instant802.com>
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 05:06:31PM -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 02:27:37PM -0700, Mohamed Abbas wrote:
>
> > 1- I needed to use sta_info_get function to do rate scaling for 3945,
> > although this function is exported but it was missing from d80211.h, for
> > work around I had to copy more header files to my driver's directory, It
> > this plan to add this function to d80211.h ?
>
> sta_info_get() (and well, any access to struct sta_info) was not
> designed to be available for the rate control modules. Could you please
> provide some more details on what kind of information you would need
> from there?
Actually, that was not correct.. What I should have said is that
sta_info was not supposed to be available for low-level drivers. If the
rate control algorithm is tightly coupled with the driver, some cleanup
would likely be needed here.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-08 21:27 3945 driver using d80211 Mohamed Abbas
2006-08-08 21:40 ` Michael Wu
2006-08-09 7:57 ` Johannes Berg
2006-08-09 14:50 ` John W. Linville
2006-08-09 16:47 ` Michael Wu
2006-08-09 17:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 19:22 ` Dan Williams
2006-08-09 21:07 ` Mohamed Abbas
2006-08-09 21:32 ` Simon Barber
2006-08-09 21:41 ` Simon Barber
2006-08-09 22:42 ` Michael Wu
2006-08-09 0:06 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-08-09 15:49 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
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