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Sven Eckelmann b037b10756 ath9k: Differentiate between max combined and per chain power
The ath9k driver uses as maximum allowed txpower the constant
MAX_RATE_POWER. It is used to set a maximum txpower limit for the PHY
(which is combined txpower) and also the maximum txpower for per chain
rates. Its value 63 is derived from the maximum number the registers can
store for the per chain txpower.

The max txpower a user can set because of this is 31 dBm (floor(63 / 2)).
This also means that a device with multiple tx chains is even limited
further:

* 1 chain:  31 dBm per chain
* 2 chains: 28 dBm per chain
* 3 chains: 26 dBm per chain

This combined txpower limit of 31 dBm becomes even more problematic when
some extra antenna gain is set in the EEPROM. A high power device is then
no longer able to reach its potential limits.

Instead the code dealing with the combined txpower must use a higher limit
than 63 and only the code dealing with the per chain txpower have to use
the limit of 63. Since the antenna gain can be quite large and 8 bit
variables are often used in ath9k for txpower, a large, divisible by two
number like 254 is a good choice for this new limit.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
History 2019-04-29 17:53:43 +03:00
arch RISC-V Patches for 5.1-rc6 2019-04-16 10:46:37 -07:00
block block: do not leak memory in bio_copy_user_iov() 2019-04-10 16:14:40 -06:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto lib/lzo: separate lzo-rle from lzo 2019-03-07 18:32:03 -08:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: add PHY reset controller binding 2019-04-18 17:41:51 -07:00
drivers ath9k: Differentiate between max combined and per chain power 2019-04-29 17:53:43 +03:00
fs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-17 09:57:45 -07:00
include net: mdio: rename mdio_device reset to reset_gpio 2019-04-18 17:42:54 -07:00
init init/main: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
ipc rhashtable: use bit_spin_locks to protect hash bucket. 2019-04-07 19:12:12 -07:00
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virt KVM: fix spectrev1 gadgets 2019-04-16 15:38:07 +02:00
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COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-17 11:26:25 -07:00
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.