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 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC789C433EF for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2021 14:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233270AbhLGO1w (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2021 09:27:52 -0500 Received: from tynnyri.adurom.net ([51.15.11.48]:56512 "EHLO tynnyri.adurom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233302AbhLGO1w (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2021 09:27:52 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1482 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:27:51 EST Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=tynnyri.adurom.net) by tynnyri.adurom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1muazg-0005zN-N1; Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:59:03 +0200 From: Kalle Valo To: Luca Coelho Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] iwlwifi: properly support 4-bit MAC step References: <20211204063555.769822-1-luca@coelho.fi> <87a6hcttpu.fsf@codeaurora.org> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:58:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Luca Coelho's message of "Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:49:19 +0200") Message-ID: <87k0ggo6sf.fsf@tynnyri.adurom.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_bar: -- Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Luca Coelho writes: > On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 15:44 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Luca Coelho writes: >> >> > From: Mike Golant >> > >> > Properly support 4-bit MAC step by refactoring all the current >> > handling of the MAC step/dash. >> >> What is 4-bit MAC step? > > Maybe a bit bad wording. We have a MAC component (which is inside the > SoC) and it has several different HW steps. 3 bits used to be enough > but now we need 4-bits to represent all the different steps. > > Do you want me to reword the commit message? Yeah, please add what you wrote above to the commit log so that people outside Intel understand what this is about. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches