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Re: [PATCH] carl9170: support firmware-based rx filter

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On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Christian Lamparter
> <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The hardware rx-filter was essentially disabled, because
>> of a serve, yet unidentifiable problem with iwlagn.
>> Due to these circumstances the driver and mac80211 were
>> left with the job of filtering.
>>
>> This is very unfortunate and has proven to be expensive
>> in terms of latency, memory and load.
>>
>> Therefore the new 1.8.8.3 firmware introduces a flexible
>> filtering infrastructure which allows the driver to
>> offload some of the checks (FCS & PLCP crc check,
>> RA match, control frame filter, etc...) whenever possible.
>>
>> Note:
>> This patch also includes all changes to the
>> shared headers files since the inclusion.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I'm sucking this into compat-wireless into linux-next-pending/

John, any chance this will make it for 37?

  Luis
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