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Re: [PATCH] carl9170: fix spurious transmissions in sniffer mode

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On Tuesday 11 September 2012 23:18:34 Christian Lamparter wrote:
> Several people have complained about an unusual
> and undocumented feature of the AR9170 hardware:
> 
> In siffer mode, the hardware generates spurious
> ACK frames for every received frame... even
> broadcasts.
> 
> The reason for this malfunction is unknown:
> <http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=134517238506033>
> But there's a workaround: Instead of the special
> sniffer mode, the hardware will be put into
> station mode and all rx filters are disabled.
> 
> Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Marco Fonseca <marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
John,

Do you have doubts about this patch, or is there a problem 
that I don't know about?

Regards,
	Chr
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