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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:50:25 +0200
From: Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@01019freenet.de>
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To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
CC: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	Michel Alexandre Salim <salimma@fedoraproject.org>,
	ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <jmalinen@atheros.com>,
	Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>,
	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: add module option for disabling
 11n functionality
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Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>> On 06/28/2011 12:46 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
>>> Some wireless base stations implement 802.11n mode in ways that
>>> open-source drivers cannot handle properly, resulting in very unstable
>>> connections. This patch introduces an '11n_disable' option to the ath9k
>>> driver, similar to the same option for the iwlagn driver.

This is a joke, isn't it? If there are problems, why don't you fix them
instead of disabling the feature?

I know, there are problems with the 11n mode (not just with atheros
chips) - but they seem to be just ignored by a lot of the developers
here. There is a bug report [1] but it seems to be handled as if it was
sent against /dev/null.

Why don't you fix the problems? Why do you ignore them? Why don't you
support people who are willing to spent time for testing?


Kind regards,
Andreas


[1] http://w1.fi/bugz/show_bug.cgi?id=402