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Re: ath9k_htc: number of VIFs limitation

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On 27 August 2012 00:16, Daniel Doron <danield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Newbie question: what is the reason for the limitation of the number of VIFs
> and their combination that is allowed? Is this a s/w limitation or h/w
> limitation?

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: there's limited RAM resources on the USB CPU and there's
some per-STA state being kept. Sujith knows the details better, I've
stayed out of ath9k_htc internals to date. :)



Adrian
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