From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:64038 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752083Ab0G2PJi (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:09:38 -0400 Received: by iwn7 with SMTP id 7so399869iwn.19 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:09:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201007291111.27417.br1@einfach.org> References: <20100727094732.27186.30900.stgit@tt-desk> <201007281106.06813.br1@einfach.org> <201007291111.27417.br1@einfach.org> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:09:17 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] cfg80211: Add nl80211 antenna configuration To: Bruno Randolf Cc: Felix Fietkau , johannes@sipsolutions.net, linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Bruno Randolf wrote: > i already tried to explain several times why FIXED_A, FIXED_B, or DIVERSITY is > not enough even for "legacy". please re-read the mails and the description of > the first patch - i really don't want to re-iterate it *again*. thanks :) What legacy device and respective device driver do we support upstream on the kernel that has this sort of extra antenna setup? Do you foresee this happening? New silicon simply won't be using legacy (non-802.11) so I do not expect new chipsets to have this setup and I do not foresee neither a driver supporting these devices nor interest from anyone actually implementing this upstream. Even consider Turbo stuff on Atheros legacy chipsets. For eons I've been recommending this crap just be removed from ath5k but yet there has been resistance. To this day no one has worked on it nor do I expect anyone will and actually get Turbo support upstream. So yes, perhaps some odd ball legacy devices exist with a setup other than ANT_A ANT_B and DIVERSITY but I do not think we will support them upstream, ever. Luis