Re: rt61 and TSF reporting?

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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Hi,

> The specsheets say nothing about TSF timestamps anywhere else then
> the registers (which is accessed by the get_tsf() callback function).
> To be more exact, the specsheets say _nothing_ about the RXD descriptors at all,
> which means they are not helpful for that. ;)

Heh.

> However there are a few RXD fields which are labeled as "reserved" which could
> mean the field is present, just not documented.
> 
> You could try printing the values of those words to see if they contain valid data,
> and to be more exact the TSF data (this can be done in the function rt61pci_fill_rxdone(...))
> The undocumented/reserved words are: 6 to 15
> 
> Do you want me to come up with a patch for this?
> 
> Note that these undocumented fields only are present in rt2500pci and rt61pci.

Ok cool, I'll play with that, I should be able to make a patch myself,
thanks.

> Neither rt2500usb or rt73usb contain them, which means that they can't report the TSF
> based on descriptor information.

So I guess they just don't transfer those reserved fields on USB.

johannes

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