On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 17:56 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > > > There are various problems happened on 5GHz band not observed on > > > 2.4 GHz (microcode errors, queue stuck, etc... ) . Also roaming > > > between 5GHz AP and 2GHz does not work very well. To workaround > > > the problems add option to disable 5GHz support. This will help > > > on environments where APs are dual-band, and devices will not try > > > to associate on band where issues happen. > > > > Would it make sense to somehow do this in cfg80211? Today, our driver > > may be the only one having this problem (which I've never really heard > > about?), but is it always going to be? > > honestly I have seen 5GHz problems with our driver multiple times. I > always ended up disabling 5GHz support in the AP since I rarely have > time to debug this. It only happens after long time of operation for me, > but was like super annoying all the time. > > And I had similar issues with N support. > > I would personally be fine with a global debugfs option within cfg80211 > to disable it. > > Regards > I don't see it hurt we have the option to disable the %GHz support in iwlwifi. We could always change it later. Thanks Wey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
