Return-path: Received: from caladan.dune.hu ([78.24.191.180]:60630 "EHLO arrakis.dune.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753339AbcCGVWl (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:22:41 -0500 Subject: Re: About adding support for MT76x2U to Linux kernel To: Johannes Stezenbach References: <20150814081526.GC20192@hackpad.Elisa> <20150814143229.61440072@north> <20160302073210.GA31353@lakka.kapsi.fi> <20160307111443.GA7205@sig21.net> <56DD6B4F.2050405@openwrt.org> <20160307124103.GA22175@sig21.net> Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Tuomas_R=c3=a4s=c3=a4nen?= , =?UTF-8?Q?Jakub_Kici=c5=84ski?= , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, tuomasjjrasanen@opinsys.fi, Linus Walleij From: Felix Fietkau Message-ID: <56DDF11E.3060102@openwrt.org> (sfid-20160307_222245_202524_03185DD8) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:22:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160307124103.GA22175@sig21.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2016-03-07 13:41, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 12:51:43PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: >> On 2016-03-07 12:14, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: >> > FWIW, the mt7610u vendor driver >> > doesn't support AP mode, while the mt7612u vendor driver does, >> > but I didn't understand how their timing of sending buffered >> > frames works. >> Where can I find the most recent version of that vendor driver? >> I can take a quick look at it. > > http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/ > or more specifically > http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/mt7612u/ I checked, they simply use a software timer for it and stuff buffered multicast packets into the BE queue. I don't think the hardware offers any better way of doing this... - Felix