On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 20:55 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Saturday 06 September 2008 20:52:53 Larry Finger wrote: > > Michael Buesch wrote: > > > On Saturday 06 September 2008 20:34:02 Larry Finger wrote: > > >> A coding error present since b43legacy was incorporated into the > > >> kernel has prevented the driver from using the rate-setting mechanism > > >> of mac80211. The driver has been forced to remain at a 1 Mb/s rate. > > > > > > Does version3 firmware have a different bitlayout for the status? > > > > It seems so. I found this because I was not getting any acks back to > > net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c. I then reviewed the V3 specs, found > > that bit 0, not bit 1, contained the ack. Test prints confirmed that > > result. With this patch, both my BCM4306/2 and BCM4303 reach the > > maximum rate. With the current code, 54 Mb/s is not as fast as 36 > > Mb/s, but at least the algorithm is working. > > Yeah ok. I just asked, because it seems the _whole_ flags bitfield > is rightshifted by one (so the other flags are wrong, too. See the > intermediate flag) It is, this isn't really a difference between the two but a result of you shifting it up/down due to the tx status via dma queue vs. tx status via registers thing. johannes
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