Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 13:49:07 +0200
From: David Lamparter <lists@diac24.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Atheros Turbo modes / API [was: nl80211]
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> +               case MODE_IEEE80211A:
> +               case MODE_ATHEROS_TURBO:
> +                       *phymode = NL80211_PHYMODE_A;
> 
> Are those Atheros Turbo modes actually useful these days in mac80211? If
> so we probably should support them in nl80211 too, but I don't really
> know, I guess Jouni is the only one who ever used them?
> 

Jouni? Is this (a) still in use, and (b) how should it be made available to
userspace? We could either add additional modes to nl80211_phymode -or- add
a NL80211_ATTR_ATHEROS_TURBO as boolean tag -or- plunge it into debugfs...


-David