Re: Does ath9k support beam forming?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 08/28/2012 10:05 PM, Mohammed Shafi wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>> I saw some RFC patches about beam-forming from 2010, but grepping current
>> code doesn't find anything that indicates these patches ever made it
>> upstream.
>> Of course, I could be looking for the wrong thing...
>
> i think even though the patches are ready for submission,
> I think the testing them proved to be very challenging, where there
> does not seems to be consistent improvement(if not decrease)
> in throughput.  I can be wrong.
>
>>
>> Does the current ath9k code support beam-forming?
>
> no. hopefully we can support them(yet we need some considerable
> amount of time to test  i suppose).

Can you post the latest patch series for this?

And maybe we can make the functionality configurable by debugfs
so that we can test it out easily?

Are there any particular test cases that would help verify the
patches?

Thanks,
Ben


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