On Saturday 06 September 2008 20:52:53 Larry Finger wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Saturday 06 September 2008 20:34:02 Larry Finger wrote:
> >> A coding error present since b43legacy was incorporated into the
> >> kernel has prevented the driver from using the rate-setting mechanism
> >> of mac80211. The driver has been forced to remain at a 1 Mb/s rate.
> > 
> > Does version3 firmware have a different bitlayout for the status?
> 
> It seems so. I found this because I was not getting any acks back to 
> net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c. I then reviewed the V3 specs, found 
> that bit 0, not bit 1, contained the ack. Test prints confirmed that 
> result. With this patch, both my BCM4306/2 and BCM4303 reach the 
> maximum rate. With the current code, 54 Mb/s is not as fast as 36 
> Mb/s, but at least the algorithm is working.

Yeah ok. I just asked, because it seems the _whole_ flags bitfield
is rightshifted by one (so the other flags are wrong, too. See the
intermediate flag)

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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