[PATCH] libertas: Improvements on automatic tx power control via SIOCSIWTXPOW.

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Thu Sep 11 13:24:07 EDT 2008


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:13:20AM -0700, Anna Neal wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Anna Neal <anna at cozybit.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 16:45 -0700, Anna Neal wrote:
> >>> Improved the tx power control configuration per Dan Williams suggestions. Added
> >>> a firmware version check because the current implementation will only work for
> >>> below version 9.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Anna Neal <anna at cozybit.com>
> >>
> >> One more round, sorry! :)
> >>
> >> First, until the patch has actually been applied, could you post
> >> complete diffs?  This is a patch against the previous patch, but it's
> >> best to keep the whole patch together until it's committed by John to
> >> the master wireless tree.
> >>
> >> Second, since you get to respin the patch anyway for this, the TPC
> >> Config stuff should be just fine on V9+ firmware, only the
> >> POWER_ADAPT_CFG command is incompatible on V9+.  I probably wasn't clear
> >> enough about this yesterday.  Any chance you could move the TPC config
> >> commands out of the firmware check and just the PACFG ones < V9?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Dan
> >
> > No problem, will send a new patch later today.
> >
> > I just wanted to point out that it seems the original patch was
> > already committed by John.
> >
> > Here is the link:
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=commith=cdd799f13e3a2a47b501286551ba9386e8936272
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Anna
> 
> I'm sorry, I sent a bad link.
> 
> Here is a good one.
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=commit&h=cdd799f13e3a2a47b501286551ba9386e8936272

FWIW, it hasn't been sent to Dave M. yet -- it's only in
wireless-testing.

That said, I'm fine with either a whole new patch or the incremental
one.  But if Dan wants a new one and you don't mind...

John
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John W. Linville
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