Subject: Re: ath10k + iw set bitrates is causing FW crash
To: Krishna Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com>
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Cc: "Manoharan, Rajkumar" <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>,
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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 08:47:16 -0700
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On 07/08/2016 08:44 AM, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>> On 07/08/2016 08:39 AM, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
>>
>>> Also can you please tell me how to make ath10k use minstrel rc, its needed
>>> for comparative purposes? Is disable HW_RATE_CONTROL enough or does
>>> it need more changes?
>>
>>
>> It cannot be done.  You have to use whatever rate-ctrl is baked into the
>> firmware.
> Ok, its a good feature to have.
>

It is unlikely to happen anytime soon.  It requires significant firmware
modification (and driver too), and probably you would have to add MU-MIMO
support to minstrel if you wanted to support latest ath10k NICs.

Thanks,
Ben

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