Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 00/10] ANI for ath5k

2010-03-27 Thread Bruno Randolf
On Saturday 27 March 2010 05:34:21 Derek Smithies wrote: It is, essentially, wishful thinking to assume one can have automatic ANI in IBSS mode. Given that we are designing a code base to have general use, we have to design code that will work for the most number of people out of the box,

Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 00/10] ANI for ath5k

2010-03-26 Thread Derek Smithies
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Bruno Randolf wrote: yeah, we all know how great minstrel is... really. Thanks for the praise on Minstrel. Felix has done, and is doing, some good work on getting it into the kernel. And of course, his current work with minstrel in 802.11 N i said in most *standard*

Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 00/10] ANI for ath5k

2010-03-25 Thread Bruno Randolf
On Friday 26 March 2010 06:13:11 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: - Improve beacon averaging algorithm for IBSS: Maybe we should keep track of the average RSSI on a per-node basis and use the minimum of those in order not to loose far away nodes? The other option would be to limit

Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 00/10] ANI for ath5k

2010-03-25 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:27:57PM -0700, Bruno Randolf wrote: On Friday 26 March 2010 06:13:11 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: - Improve beacon averaging algorithm for IBSS: Maybe we should keep track of the average RSSI on a per-node basis and use the minimum of those in order

Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 00/10] ANI for ath5k

2010-03-25 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 06:21:50PM -0700, Derek Smithies wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Bruno Randolf wrote: - Improve beacon averaging algorithm for IBSS: is to turn ani off. which means the issue you raised else where of providing reasonable userland controls (not via debugfs) becomes

Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 00/10] ANI for ath5k

2010-03-25 Thread Bruno Randolf
On Friday 26 March 2010 10:21:50 Derek Smithies wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Bruno Randolf wrote: - Improve beacon averaging algorithm for IBSS: is to turn ani off. which means the issue you raised else where of providing reasonable userland controls (not via debugfs) becomes important.

[ath5k-devel] [PATCH 00/10] ANI for ath5k

2010-03-24 Thread Bruno Randolf
This is ANI for ath5k. I have looked ath both the HAL and ath9k sources, while implementing this, so the basic algorithm is the same. A notable difference is that i do everything in a tasklet, while ath9k and HAL do larger parts in the interrupt handler. Also i have only one routine for raising