[PATCH 1/3] nl80211: Add support for beacon tx mode

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Thu Apr 8 12:11:34 BST 2021


On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 11:32 +0100, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> On Monday, 22 February 2021 11:09:31 CET Maharaja Kennadyrajan wrote:
> > User can configure the beacon tx mode while bring-up the AP
> > or MESH. Hence, added the support in the nl80211/cfg80211
> > layer to honour the beacon tx mode configuration and pass
> > this value to the driver.
> 
> There is not a definition what this actually means. But I am guessing that you 
> are mean the way the HW sends our the beacons for a multivif (beaconing) 
> setup. And in this case, it is a per "phy" setting and not a per AP/meshpoint 
> setting, right?

In addition, the commit logs are not explaining anything, why you'd use
it, why it's necessary, etc.

I'll say it again: @codeaurora folks, consider the community, not just
your own driver. I'm really getting tired of having to extract
information from you.

johannes




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