[ath9k-devel] ath9k_htc 1mbps in IBSS mode

[Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:52:31AM -0300, Guido Iribarren wrote:
> Antonio,
> do you like "dulce de leche"[0]?

Yes, please. A jar would be good! :D

> I don't know if it's correct to offer such a "bounty" in exchange for
> a patch :P but it's something within my reach (as opposed to kernel
> driver hacking...)
> 
> having a proper fix for this would result in the first (AFAIK) 802.11n
> usb dongle working in ibss mode.
> 


I'm already working on this. I'll try to come up with a patchset (I'm working on
the whole basic_rates/mcast_rate thing) as soon as possible :-)

Thank you.
Cheers,

> Cheers!
> 
> Gui
> 
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_de_leche
> 
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:09:49AM +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> >> Nicol?s Ech?niz wrote:
> >> > Sujith, does this mean that the problem is outside the scope of the
> >> > ath9k_htc driver itself or could it be fixed?
> >> >
> >> > we are doing some heavy use of hardware based on this driver for many
> >> > projects; any further debugging work you might need, we are more than
> >> > willing to help.
> >>
> >> This is a regression introduced by this commit:
> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=6d810f10325522cfcf498dc6d64b9f96e1f5153f
> >>
> >> Fixing this requires either introducing a new mac80211 callback or
> >> revert to the older behavior which issued a station notification only
> >> after the supported rates have been setup.
> >
> > In my opinion a proper callback is better. However, the all basic_rates thing
> > needs a restyling...I think this is a good moment to counter the issue :-)
> > If nobody else is going to work on this, I will try to propose a solution in
> > the following days.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Antonio Quartulli
> >
> > ..each of us alone is worth nothing..
> > Ernesto "Che" Guevara

-- 
Antonio Quartulli

..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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