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Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: ignore AP power level when tx power type is
 "fixed"
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:13:02 +0100
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On Sat, 2015-12-05 at 15:07 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> In some cases a user might want to connect to a far away access
> point,
> which announces a low tx power limit. Using the AP's power limit can
> make the connection significantly more unstable or even impossible,
> and
> mac80211 currently provides no way to disable this behavior.
> 
> To fix this, use the currently unused distinction between limited and
> fixed tx power to decide whether a remote AP's power limit should be
> accepted.
> 
This seems reasonable. Maybe we should document it though?

johannes