On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:12:27AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> From: Ivo van Doorn <[email protected]>
> 
> commit 8d1331b37d5b656a7a8e561f8e9d7661dd00c910 upstream.
> 
> During initialization each driver reads the default TX power
> for each individual channel. However mac80211 only accepts the
> maximum value (which is also handled as default value).
> 
> As a result, the TX power of the device was being limited to
> the default value, which is often quite low compared to the
> real maximum acceptable value.
> 
> This patch allows each driver to set the maximum value on a
> per-channel basis which is forwarded to mac80211. The default
> value will be preserved for now, in case we want to update
> mac80211 to differentiate between the maximum and default txpower.
> 
> This fixes bug complaining about limited TX power values like:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16358
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Helmut Schaa <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
> ---
> This addresses the following bug:
> 
>       https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=28581

Now applied, thanks.

greg k-h

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