Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754269AbYH1Baw (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:30:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752809AbYH1Bak (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:30:40 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.235]:22309 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752776AbYH1Bai (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:30:38 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=qaOF/N7fkhU/fSjGNMMGC3GoP5VTYa7gOlptiGPiTnNtsSpYKivdRbZmNy1feFwieT sn/3JM91WqAf+qFQDLokjZ9JMFkRf74pQTchEJNV1ZSLR6lqqO9lcrH+Fy8+zoW5r9uF DG1LypIM8BhJ94OxJfnxp93eUvrwz6hvosmgM= Message-ID: <43e72e890808271830k6e0a9e65j790ee1e0d6d52d36@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:30:37 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Tomas Winkler" Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-08-26 Cc: "Michael Buesch" , "John W. Linville" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Bruno Randolf" In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240808271719o2a3617e7re0499670de785b2f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080827013009.GA15781@tuxdriver.com> <1ba2fa240808271226i95a7789k481a68b09dc60164@mail.gmail.com> <200808272225.10557.mb@bu3sch.de> <1ba2fa240808271611v382631ecn2a24e2816562d434@mail.gmail.com> <20080827233103.GE5927@tesla> <1ba2fa240808271719o2a3617e7re0499670de785b2f@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: acba1f5a8e1d97f2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1182 Lines: 31 On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Tomas Winkler wrote: > This patch is marked as W/A and should have > probably some cleaner solution in 2.6.28 OK >>> Last solution would be to remove this merging all together >> >> Absolutely not! IBSS merge is per spec, otherwise you don't really have >> a real IBSS. > > I'm all for following spec and we've tried really hard to make it work. > Anyhow I'm not sure what you call real IBSS. nobody has checked it for > 1.5 year this patch is in and now is suddenly so important... I don't care about your work around, I was replying due to your insane comments about considering removing IBSS merge support because your hardware does not support it well. > I would like to see if there is any HW under mac80211 that actually > work with this. Atheros hardware supports IBSS merge, please consider a proper work around instead for hardware which does not support this. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/