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Hi Carlo,

Thanks for your response! I'm quoting it fully below for the benefit of
the list which dropped your response since it was HTML.

On Fri, 2023-09-29 at 16:40 +0200, Carlo Augusto Grazia wrote:
> Dear Johannes,
> Thank you for this email!
> I'm in the "people who use/used" it.

:)

>  I've tested the OCB performance in some scientific papers and used the OCB mode in
> the laboratory part of my course on Automotive Connectivity at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy).
> I'm using it in "low-cost laboratory" mode with Arduino Yuns and a proper version of LEDE/OpenWRT, indeed, as you said, 
> the Yun device mounts ath9k.

Right.

> I don't know if will be ever implemented a DSRC/WAVE/802.11p mode on Linux, allowing low-cost hardware to perform as On Board Unit
> for my tests, I'll probably always have to use Codha Wireless devices or SDR properly configured for doing this...
> 
> I've always tried to see if the OCB on ath9k was going to be ported at least on ath9k_htc, but nothing...so I got your point (maybe), an IBSS code well maintained for more
> drivers is better than an OCB code working only for ath9k.
> 
> Also, I've never maintained a driver, so I don't know if I can help, but I'm really interested in the direction this story will take.

OK, fair enough. I was mostly just putting out feelers.

Honestly the thing isn't even necessarily maintaining it, but as it
stands, I don't even know of any way to _run_ the code, which is a bit
sad.

Is all the setup that you had very complex?

johannes




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