On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 08:07:16PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > On Saturday 13 October 2012 10:59:53 Christian Lamparter wrote: > > 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? > > John, > > can you comment? Or do you need a resend? Or should I stop > asking about it ;)? > > Regards, > Chr It looks fine. There was a lot of comments in the original thread, which probably explains why I've been overlooking it. I'll try to include it when I get back to merging for -next (soon). John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
