On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Lukáš Turek <8...@praha12.net> wrote: > Hi, > > it seems Ath5k is missing a Madwifi feature that is essential for our > long-distance links: setting ACK timeout value based on the link distance. > > I found a function ath5k_hw_set_ack_timeout, but it't not called from > anywhere. So only the most low-level part is there, the rest and the whole > userspace API is missing. > > What's the best way to add it? I thought about adding it to iw, like > "iw phy0 set acktimeout", but it would require a change on many layers > (iw, nl80211, mac80211 and finally ath5k). > > Do you think such changes would be accepted?
No, not all hardware can change this, we also don't want to clobber iw with hw specific knobs. > Or should we resort to some > simpler hack (like a sysfs or even debugfs parameter)? debugfs would be easy and preferred way to expose all the hw specific knobs. Luis _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
