linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RFC] ath9k: Fix reporting of RX STBC streams to userspace

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Message-ID: <20110112052227.GE31650@vasanth-laptop>
Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:52:28 +0530
From:	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@...eros.com>
To:	Bernhard Walle <walle@...science.de>
CC:	Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@...eros.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@...eros.com>,
	Vasanth Thiagarajan <Vasanth.Thiagarajan@...eros.com>,
	Senthilkumar Balasubramanian 
	<Senthilkumar.Balasubramanian@...eros.com>,
	"linville@...driver.com" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"ath9k-devel@...ts.ath9k.org" <ath9k-devel@...ts.ath9k.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] ath9k: Fix reporting of RX STBC streams to
	userspace

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:29:54PM +0530, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> While the driver reports
> 
>         ath: TX streams 2, RX streams: 2
> 
> in the kernel log (with ATH_DBG_CONFIG set in the debug module
> parameter), "iw list" only reported
> 
> [...]
>         Capabilities: 0x12ce
>                 HT20/HT40
>                 SM Power Save disabled
>                 RX HT40 SGI
>                 TX STBC
>                 RX STBC 1-streams
> [...]
> 
> The driver seems to set the value as flag while the iw tool interprets
> it as number. This patch fixes that.

Nope. hw supports STBC for one Spatial stream only.

Vasanth
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