On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 22:39 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > I went back and looked at this, and now I remember why I wrote the code > the way I did. The Realtek firmware handles rate control, so once I set > IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL, I never see > rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_SHORT_PREAMBLE nor > tx_info->control_short_preamble. In order to know whether to tell the > firmware to request short preamble or not, I needed to track whether the > sta supports it. > > Do you have a suggestion for how to handle this in a better way? >
Ah, this makes sense. There's an rc_update call or something like that, that might have the requisite information. Not really sure off the top of my head. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
