From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24AB4C11F67 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:44:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021D161CFF for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:44:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233442AbhF2RrX (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:47:23 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:33538 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233185AbhF2RrX (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:47:23 -0400 Received: from nbd.name (nbd.name [IPv6:2a01:4f8:221:3d45::2]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CD397C061760 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 10:44:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nbd.name; s=20160729; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To: MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:Subject:From:References:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=wm96ttAfqELqdoCeZXAh41t/Wo5Pn1VIhdGSoa8LxTw=; b=k53iBDt+7zoyPjhPdqETsaZByg JOlxyBtElFQOOs9Lcx3y4EH7/i+6WcYxFrLd59hnFzwBm0P8DnGjlqntdTWKANXBFN0lA6/6Nm7zH HsPiqNFtlNnV5KosozksVvkq6EUkzNvb3/jjihuL55QdrrC3UrU4sHaofH+h0cuGbE7I=; Received: from p54ae93f7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.174.147.247] helo=nf.local) by ds12 with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1lyHn3-0000B5-QS; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:44:53 +0200 To: Johannes Berg , Maharaja Kennadyrajan , ath11k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <1623164855-15910-1-git-send-email-mkenna@codeaurora.org> <1623164855-15910-2-git-send-email-mkenna@codeaurora.org> From: Felix Fietkau Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] nl80211: Add support for beacon tx mode Message-ID: <0e3d0abd-a895-77d8-d3a6-ef6d2616b7db@nbd.name> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:44:53 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org On 2021-06-23 13:16, Johannes Berg wrote: > First, I'd like to see some input from other vendors - is this useful? > > I have no objections to it and it comes with an in-kernel driver, so I'm > inclined to accept it, but maybe we should have other modes, etc.? I haven't seen any config option like this outside of QCA stuff. It seems to me that before getting merged, the documentation should at least cover when and why the *user* would configure this implementation detail, instead of having the driver/fw make a reasonable decision on its own. - Felix From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DAFC11F67 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:45:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FB2861DA7 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:45:02 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 1FB2861DA7 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=nbd.name Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=ath11k-bounces+ath11k=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Subject:From:References:To:Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=UrG21I+IvtzhJiJpajqaVj7Ik77hWacVsmNkY01U8v8=; b=HAc+anrGGLUMDJ+VB/QW1yn9xc 5zqQIkm+cpp/VvYWFPOL1/arbVXsUSTrcER8AwzzoTLq1EHE2vGnNdxkTtFlPSpZv0pLvFsmRPjGC IAmZVYtHFnvy18Qz+XwCW//0/XyRjO4hsyxVEjv+2qeQIcawRD7644MlAMdnfXQ88sziMMYqDtGuB +eOG3SDU34C5Cv0uw9XeJZTu7QA5bEPrXzjWF+MgZNdY60S4h+VjQ7byl+eVtTbs3mA2Pq2r+lsJD zDurYOYlGhscqS5IHoYxAP1TMPMOGxQtJhdjTArm5XoVIrzaZI6zFt3blVjUMYmv0j0Mhmgk6W3Dl iPcGvwlg==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1lyHn9-00BlWp-V8; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:45:00 +0000 Received: from nbd.name ([2a01:4f8:221:3d45::2]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1lyHn5-00BlW1-Op for ath11k@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:44:58 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nbd.name; s=20160729; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To: MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:Subject:From:References:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=wm96ttAfqELqdoCeZXAh41t/Wo5Pn1VIhdGSoa8LxTw=; b=k53iBDt+7zoyPjhPdqETsaZByg JOlxyBtElFQOOs9Lcx3y4EH7/i+6WcYxFrLd59hnFzwBm0P8DnGjlqntdTWKANXBFN0lA6/6Nm7zH HsPiqNFtlNnV5KosozksVvkq6EUkzNvb3/jjihuL55QdrrC3UrU4sHaofH+h0cuGbE7I=; Received: from p54ae93f7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.174.147.247] helo=nf.local) by ds12 with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1lyHn3-0000B5-QS; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:44:53 +0200 To: Johannes Berg , Maharaja Kennadyrajan , ath11k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <1623164855-15910-1-git-send-email-mkenna@codeaurora.org> <1623164855-15910-2-git-send-email-mkenna@codeaurora.org> From: Felix Fietkau Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] nl80211: Add support for beacon tx mode Message-ID: <0e3d0abd-a895-77d8-d3a6-ef6d2616b7db@nbd.name> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:44:53 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20210629_104456_012030_01E023D5 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 11.00 ) X-BeenThere: ath11k@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "ath11k" Errors-To: ath11k-bounces+ath11k=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 2021-06-23 13:16, Johannes Berg wrote: > First, I'd like to see some input from other vendors - is this useful? > > I have no objections to it and it comes with an in-kernel driver, so I'm > inclined to accept it, but maybe we should have other modes, etc.? I haven't seen any config option like this outside of QCA stuff. It seems to me that before getting merged, the documentation should at least cover when and why the *user* would configure this implementation detail, instead of having the driver/fw make a reasonable decision on its own. - Felix -- ath11k mailing list ath11k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath11k