From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Antonio Quartulli Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:14:47 +0200 Subject: [ath9k-devel] ath9k_htc 1mbps in IBSS mode In-Reply-To: References: <4FD56DCA.1080200@codigosur.org> <20474.20627.928963.262924@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <4FFF2B15.5070502@codigosur.org> <20482.22437.126251.847921@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20120715082828.GO19461@ritirata.org> Message-ID: <20120723171447.GE3610@ritirata.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.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 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/attachments/20120723/8f56cba8/attachment.pgp