On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Lukáš Turek <8...@praha12.net> wrote:

> The problem is, I don't know any hardware that really sends the coverage
> class. There's a lot of hardware that allows setting only the ACK timeout,
> like all the Ubiquity devices, Ovislink 5000 and so on. So the client
> connecting to these devices will need to specify the coverage class manually.

You have a good point here.

> When the coverage class is sent in beacons, it should take precedence over the
> user-specified value, I'm not against that.

OK.

> It's just not relevant now, until
> there's a hardware that sends it or until the hostap part is done. And I said
> I want to do that, just not in this series, it's already problematic
> enough...

OK, yeah you have a good point.

> And about the debugfs: originaly I thought i would just implement a simple
> debugfs API for setting ACK/CTS timeout and slot time. However, Johannes Berg
> recommended me to do this coverage class thing and I didn't envision how much
> trouble it's gonna be...

Thanks a lot for your work on this!

  Luis
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