Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] nl80211: Add new WIPHY attribute COVERAGE_CLASS
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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	ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org
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Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:49:26 +0100
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On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 19:45 +0100, Luk=C3=A1=C5=A1 Turek wrote:
> On 6.12.2009 19:01 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > This patch assumes that all hardware supports this, which is not really
> > what you want. You'll want to know if it can't be set. Yes, we assume
> > rts/cts can be set always, but that's a _much_ safer bet.
> If the hardware does not support it, the operation will fail with EOPNOTS=
UPP:
>=20
> # iw phy0 set coverage 1
> command failed: Operation not supported (-95)

Umm, no it won't, that's only with your specific mac80211
implementation. Try on rndis for instance.

johannes

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