Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755406AbYH1H7i (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:59:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753588AbYH1H7Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:59:24 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.26]:16355 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753475AbYH1H7W (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:59:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=dMjcu69D8HqSwcbfjV/0Iga56EhQ/WSvmYupFmfF5R+02WTJviBTmGYBrVF7MZtxp+ wucm58gAOMazLRAfVAyVyZASXcGeg8JlLfPaKamMLDWg7pocWA10uQQO7HJsj5Baa13z cDsz6IoTdEj9RLcIe8V6rZxHmc6D31peUxP98= Message-ID: <1ba2fa240808280059i24d2ee56rd7a3c37150e1c03c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:59:20 +0300 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" 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: <43e72e890808271830k6e0a9e65j790ee1e0d6d52d36@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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> <43e72e890808271830k6e0a9e65j790ee1e0d6d52d36@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1557 Lines: 40 On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > 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. Insane?!, watch your language mister I will catch you on next year OLS :) This is definitely not any highlighted proposal in my message >> 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. So how do set TSF from the beacon, I'm asking because there is currently no interface from mac80211 to driver do that. Thanks Tomas -- 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/