From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: mabbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] d80211: add SIOCSIWTXPOW, SIOCGIWTXPOW, SIOCSIWPOWER and SIOCGIWPOWER
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:24:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4513E407.50400@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060922131605.0edfd719@logostar.upir.cz>
Jiri Benc wrote:
> Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:39:40 -0700, mabbas pise:
>> if the stack handle it then no need to know. When I call
>> ieee80211_register_hw with driver's channel, rate and txpower info. the
>> txpower values are overwritten by ieee80211_init_client. I get all the
>> txpower info from EEPROMin the NIC and they are different that what
>> d80211 default to. Is there is away to keep the value the driver passed
>> in ieee80211_register_hw?
>
> Well, there is still a work to do here. See Larry Finger's proposal,
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg05623.html - it's not ideal, there
> are some problems with its design, but it's probably the way to go.
That project is on hold now, but I'm willing to share the information I have and to participate in
further developments.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-22 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-28 20:45 [PATCH 1/7] d80211: add SIOCSIWTXPOW, SIOCGIWTXPOW, SIOCSIWPOWER and SIOCGIWPOWER mabbas
2006-09-21 16:30 ` Jiri Benc
2006-09-21 16:43 ` mabbas
2006-09-21 18:33 ` Jiri Benc
2006-09-21 19:57 ` mabbas
2006-09-21 22:13 ` Jiri Benc
2006-09-21 22:39 ` mabbas
2006-09-22 11:16 ` Jiri Benc
2006-09-22 13:24 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2006-09-22 13:30 ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-22 13:54 ` Larry Finger
2006-09-25 8:42 ` Johannes Berg
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