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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	lrodriguez@atheros.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] cfg80211: Add nl80211 antenna configuration
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:05:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1280225142.19098.10.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100727094759.27186.79639.stgit@tt-desk>

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 18:48 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:

> The antenna configuration is defined as a bitmap of allowed antennas to use for
> either receiving or transmitting. Separate bitmaps are used for RX and TX to
> allow configuring different antennas for receiving and transmitting. The bitmap
> is 8 bit long, each bit representing one antenna, starting with antenna 1.
> 
> If multiple receive (RX) antennas are selected, the driver may use diversity or
> multiple 802.11n RX chains, according to the chipset capabilities and
> configuration.

I'm still not convinced that this is the best approach. Can you discuss
this a bit?

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-27 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-27  9:47 [PATCH v4 0/3] Antenna configuration Bruno Randolf
2010-07-27  9:48 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] cfg80211: Add nl80211 antenna configuration Bruno Randolf
2010-07-27 10:05   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-07-28  2:03     ` Bruno Randolf
2010-07-27 16:19   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-27 16:39     ` Felix Fietkau
2010-07-27 16:47       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-28  2:06         ` Bruno Randolf
2010-07-28 17:24           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-28 17:50             ` Felix Fietkau
2010-07-28 21:15               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-28 21:26                 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-07-28 21:39                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-28 22:05                     ` Felix Fietkau
2010-07-28 22:14                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-29  0:10                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-29  2:11             ` Bruno Randolf
2010-07-29 15:09               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-08-02  3:59                 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-08-02  5:31                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-27  9:48 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] mac80211: Add " Bruno Randolf
2010-07-27  9:48 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] ath5k: Add support for " Bruno Randolf

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