From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.19.149.2]:56504 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753512Ab0JDRWA (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 13:22:00 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:21:52 -0700 Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:21:59 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: CC: linux-wireless Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] Ath9k in funky state after adding 130 STA interfaces. Message-ID: <20101004172159.GJ2105@tux> References: <4CA81265.8030403@candelatech.com> <20101004170732.GH2105@tux> <20101004170906.22433.qmail@stuge.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <20101004170906.22433.qmail@stuge.se> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:09:06AM -0700, Peter Stuge wrote: > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > This on wireless-testing from Friday, plus a few debugfs patches > > > I posted recently. > > > > > > I was running two STA just fine, and then tried to add 128 more. > > > > You're serious right? I mean I'm happy your serious, but whoa, you > > want 130 STAs on one interface working fine? > > Come on. If it is impossible to work because of whatever limitations > then wouldn't it make sense for the driver to throw an error instead > of not throwing an error and just not working? You're right but if you are using the ath9k virtual wiphy stuff please not that code is intended to be removed, it was experimental code and this is also why we don't have good documentation for it. It was just a hack as a proof of concept. The real solution needs to take place on cfg80211/mac80211. Luis