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Re: [PATCH 2/3] ath9k: make rxfilter per HW

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On 2015-06-22 13:59, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 13:58 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 13:43 +0200, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
>> > mac80211 configure rxfilter per HW,
>> > so we don't need this per channel.
>> 
>> As I said before, I think there's value in mac80211 doing it per chanctx
>> or even per vif, and it should be more efficient to do so.
>> 
>> It's tempting to do it per vif and leave the chanctx work up to the
>> driver, but perhaps with CSA and all that it gets complicated enough
>> that doing it per chanctx in mac80211 would make sense?
> 
> On the other hand, I think our device requires it per vif, so we'd
> probably have to do both.
> 
> +Andrei, who was looking into this.
There's value in it, but I think it makes more sense to fix this bug
now, and rework the code again later when mac80211 has support for
per-vif or per-chanctx rxfilter.

- Felix
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