From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] carl9170: fix spurious transmissions in sniffer mode
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:03:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121026210348.GA25691@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201210262007.17369.chunkeey@googlemail.com>
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 08:07:16PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Saturday 13 October 2012 10:59:53 Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 September 2012 23:18:34 Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > > Several people have complained about an unusual
> > > and undocumented feature of the AR9170 hardware:
> > >
> > > In siffer mode, the hardware generates spurious
> > > ACK frames for every received frame... even
> > > broadcasts.
> > >
> > > The reason for this malfunction is unknown:
> > > <http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=134517238506033>
> > > But there's a workaround: Instead of the special
> > > sniffer mode, the hardware will be put into
> > > station mode and all rx filters are disabled.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> > > Reported-by: Marco Fonseca <marco@tampabay.rr.com>
> > > Reported-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
> > > ---
> > John,
> >
> > Do you have doubts about this patch, or is there a problem
> > that I don't know about?
>
> John,
>
> can you comment? Or do you need a resend? Or should I stop
> asking about it ;)?
>
> Regards,
> Chr
It looks fine. There was a lot of comments in the original thread,
which probably explains why I've been overlooking it. I'll try to
include it when I get back to merging for -next (soon).
John
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-26 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-11 21:18 [PATCH] carl9170: fix spurious transmissions in sniffer mode Christian Lamparter
2012-09-11 22:03 ` Richard Farina
2012-09-11 23:26 ` Christian Lamparter
2012-09-11 23:46 ` Richard Farina
2012-09-12 1:08 ` Christian Lamparter
2012-09-12 7:09 ` Johannes Berg
2012-10-13 8:59 ` Christian Lamparter
2012-10-26 18:07 ` Christian Lamparter
2012-10-26 21:03 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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