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Re: [PATCH] carl9170: make use of the new rate control API

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On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 09:24:28 PM Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 21:17 +0200, Thomas Hühn wrote:
> > Hi Christian,
> > 
> > I have not seen that patch in wireless-next, that's why I overlooked it... sorry.
You are right and it's not in wireless-testing.git either. That's a bit odd.

John,

was this patch overlooked/lost or was there a problem with it?
(Or: can you please put it into wireless-next)

> > > carl9170 already supports the new rate control API (Patch from 2013-04-23).
> > > <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/107657>
> > > 
> > > Can you please tell me what you think is missing?
> > > 
> > 
> > You patch looks good to me.
> > As I just saw an ath9k patch for rcu protection when ieee80211_get_tx_rates() is called.
> > Should this be done in carl9170 as well ?
> 
> I think that patch is wrong actually, probably should just do the rcu
> protection inside the function. However the patch is completely wrong
> anyway (C isn't python) so ...
Uh, that's confusing. We are now talking about the patch from Thomas, right?
If so: the previous "new rate control api" feature patch for carl9170 should
be fine in this regard.

Regards,
	Chr
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