[PATCH] b43: xmit: set 5 GHz bit depending on current band

Antonio Quartulli antonio at meshcoding.com
Tue May 20 00:10:35 PDT 2014



On 20/05/14 09:09, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 20 May 2014 08:48, Antonio Quartulli <antonio at meshcoding.com> wrote:
>> On 20/05/14 08:46, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c
>>> -     if (phy->type == B43_PHYTYPE_A)
>>> +     if (!phy->gmode)
>>>               mac_ctl |= B43_TXH_MAC_5GHZ;
>>
>> I am not familiar with this driver, but wouldn't 11b mode fall in this
>> case as well ?
> 
> What Broadcom calls a "gmode" is 2GHz. So this is a simple bool
> 1) gmode = true; // we work in 2GHz mode
> 2) gmode = false; // we work in 5GHz mode

Oh ok, thanks for the clarification! I think the variable name should be
less ambiguous then, but it's your/broadcom code :)

Cheers,


-- 
Antonio Quartulli

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