Antonio, do you like "dulce de leche"[0]? I don't know if it's correct to offer such a "bounty" in exchange for a patch :P but it's something within my reach (as opposed to kernel driver hacking...)
having a proper fix for this would result in the first (AFAIK) 802.11n usb dongle working in ibss mode. Cheers! Gui [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_de_leche On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Antonio Quartulli <or...@autistici.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:09:49AM +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote: >> Nicolás Echániz wrote: >> > 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. >> >> This is a regression introduced by this commit: >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=6d810f10325522cfcf498dc6d64b9f96e1f5153f >> >> Fixing this requires either introducing a new mac80211 callback or >> revert to the older behavior which issued a station notification only >> after the supported rates have been setup. > > In my opinion a proper callback is better. However, the all basic_rates thing > needs a restyling...I think this is a good moment to counter the issue :-) > If nobody else is going to work on this, I will try to propose a solution in > the following days. > > > Cheers, > > -- > Antonio Quartulli > > ..each of us alone is worth nothing.. > Ernesto "Che" Guevara _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
