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Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k_htc 1mbps in IBSS mode

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On 07/09/2012 12:31 AM, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Guido Iribarren wrote:
>> I know nothing about the internal workings of the driver, but i get
>> the feeling that nodes are somehow not acknowledging supported speeds
>> of newly joined nodes, but instead only check other hosts speeds when
>> they join the IBSS cloud for the first time, and so it's limited to
>> nodes already present at the moment of the join.
> 
> It looks like commit 6d810f10 changed the behavior.
> 
> The station addition notification is now passed to the driver before the
> supported rates are updated for the peer (which happens via ieee80211_rx_bss_info()).
> Drivers which offload rate control to the firmware but depend on mac80211 for
> station management would be affected, I think.


Sujith, does this mean that the problem is outside the scope of the
ath9k_htc driver itself or could it be fixed?

we are doing some heavy use of hardware based on this driver for many
projects; any further debugging work you might need, we are more than
willing to help.


Cheers,
NicoEchániz
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