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Subject: Re: iwlwifi warnings in 5.5-rc1
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date:   Wed, 11 Dec 2019 15:13:29 +0100
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On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 15:09 +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> 
> If we're doing this on a per-driver basis, let's make it a proper
> NL80211_EXT_FEATURE and expose it to userspace; that way users can at
> least discover if it's supported on their device. I can send a patch
> adding that...

Sure. Just didn't get to that yet, but if you want to send a patch
that's very welcome. I have to run out now, will be back in the evening
at most.

> Maybe we should untangle this from airtime_flags completely, since if we
> just use the flags people could conceivably end up disabling it by
> mistake, couldn't they?

Yes, that sounds like a good plan, now I was wondering why it's there
anyway.

johannes