Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211/cfg80211: Add support to send tx frames at
 specified rate
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, vamsin@codeaurora.org
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From:   Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Date:   Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:18:05 -0800
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On 01/15/2019 05:13 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 23:19 +0530, vamsin@codeaurora.org wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, the driver that I am working now is not upstreamed. I
>> would like to check with Ben if he likes to propose a patch ath10k
>> driver that he is working on as I see he is also interested in this
>> feature. Please let me know if it is mandatory or good to have driver
>> implementation.
>
> I'm not sure it really has to be *mandatory*, but if nobody else even
> wants to have support for this (and e.g. iwlwifi cannot even easily do
> this I believe) then what value does something have upstream?

Maybe ath9k could get support for this API?

Likely I'll eventually implement support for ath9k for this API if it is
in the kernel and no one does it first, but not sure when I'd get to it.

Thanks,
Ben


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