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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:15:13 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com> To: Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org> Cc: jbenc@...e.cz, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, rt2400-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, mb@...sch.de, flamingice@...rmilk.net Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mac80211: improved short preamble handling On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 03:07:39PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > Similarly to CTS protection, whether short preambles are used for 802.11b > transmissions should be a per-subif setting, not device global. > > For STAs, this patch makes short preamble handling automatic based on the ERP > IE. For APs, hostapd still uses the prism ioctls, but the write ioctl has been > restricted to AP-only subifs. > > ieee80211_txrx_data.short_preamble (an unused field) was removed. > > Unfortunately, some API changes were required for the following functions: > - ieee80211_generic_frame_duration > - ieee80211_rts_duration > - ieee80211_ctstoself_duration > - ieee80211_rts_get > - ieee80211_ctstoself_get > Affected drivers (bcm43xx, rt2x00 and rtl8187) were updated accordingly. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org> Jiri, Michael -- this applies to upstream w/ just some offsets if you ignore the driver bits that aren't upstream. I'll be happy to handle the patch monkeying if you are happy w/ this patch. John -- John W. Linville linville@...driver.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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