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 _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
