From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f219.google.com ([209.85.219.219]:38468 "EHLO mail-ew0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755109AbZLWMyX (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:54:23 -0500 Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so6282005ewy.21 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:54:22 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1261571890.3512.0.camel@johannes.local> References: <1261061645.10356.114.camel@johannes.local> <1261571890.3512.0.camel@johannes.local> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:54:21 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Backoff algorithm From: Andrey Lukyanenko To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Umm, I don't think you understood what I said. I only mentioned ar9170 > and broadcom devices... Yes, I understood that you only meant ar9170 and b43. But what do you mean by " influencing the value you give the hw"? Firmware is not open source, afaik. How can I influence the values? What I said about OpenFWWF and tos-mac are just some recent findings about existing implementations of backoff scheme. -- Best regards, Andrey Lukyanenko.