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Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 12/30] ath5k: Increase PHY settling parameters for turo mode

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On Wed November 24 2010 05:11:57 Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> 2010/11/23 Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:04:43AM -0800, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> > 
> > Are you willing to deal with *all* bug reports for this?
> > 
> >  Luis
> 
> I don't enable 5/10/40MHz operation anywhere for now, it's just there
> for testing/debug. I tested it and it seems to work fine (also with a
> spectrum analyzer) but until we come up with the proper way to set
> this from user-space I'll wait. Also have in mind I just do what
> Atheros does on initvals, nothing new, I just diffed initvals/rfbuffer
> settings between turbo/non-turbo modes, found what's changing and how
> (i had 5/10MHz code from HAL for that -as i wrote on another mail
> 5/10/40MHz work mostly the same way-) and implemented it on code. Now
> it's much cleaner + it actually works so i don't see a problem with
> that. Before we had code for turbo that didn't work and duplicated
> arrays of initvals/rfbuffer settings for no reason.
> 
> Have in mind that there are people out there that want 5/10MHz support
> badly to implement 802.11p on top of it (or for research) and people
> who want to get rid of MadWiFi on OpenWRT and use turbo mode with
> ath5k. We had to do this sometime, it's not a dirty hack, i think the
> implementation is clean and simple.
> 
> As for bug reports we already have bug reports about cards that fail
> to wake up that we are unable to debug because we have no idea what's
> going on, you can't choose what you 'll do based on possible bug
> reports, bugs are part of the process...

Hey Nick!

It's great to see that patch series! Glad you're back...
I'll look at the individual patches later, but it's a lot - as you know ;)

bruno
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