Return-path: Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.233]:40493 "EHLO mgw-mx06.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754079AbYG2V0k (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:26:40 -0400 To: "Johannes Berg" Cc: Tomas Winkler , Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , Hin-Tak Leung , Larry Finger , Pavel Roskin , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Commit 741b4fbc44 (mac80211: fix TX sequence numbers) breaks rtl8187 References: <487f5f20.2lT57D3i0q99wrfY%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <48874F09.7060400@lwfinger.net> <3ace41890807281939y462c9b91n5fa952e167b6ff8c@mail.gmail.com> <200807290021.45400.herton@mandriva.com.br> <1217314430.15381.11.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240807290123n7673dbb9m7121c1e76fe57e94@mail.gmail.com> <1217320089.15381.25.camel@johannes.berg> From: Kalle Valo In-Reply-To: <1217320089.15381.25.camel@johannes.berg> (ext Johannes Berg's message of "Tue\, 29 Jul 2008 10\:28\:09 +0200") Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:26:00 +0300 Message-ID: <87y73kjsbb.fsf@nokia.com> (sfid-20080729_232643_706316_A1163E93) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg writes: > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 11:23 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Johannes Berg >> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 00:21 -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: >> > >> >> [3] /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 power on >> > >> > I don't think turning on power management (yes, this command is >> > completely misnamed, it turns on power _management_ not the power, you >> > may want "txpower auto") does anything on this chip, does it? >> > >> iwconfig power on is not implemented by mac80211 yet. There was one >> patch posted that implements it. >> I wanted to expand it but wireless_tools 29 has a bug in parsing this >> command. It is fixed only in 30.pre6 which is usually not in distros. > > Heh, fun. Time for putting that into cfg80211 instead if nobody can use > it with wext anyway? Wireless Extensions needs to be supported as well, we simply cannot yet rely only on cfg80211 interface. The reason being that it's not widely supported yet. -- Kalle Valo