[ath10k] IBSS mode

[Yeoh Chun-Yeow]

For the rate control issue, please make sure that sta->sta.wme = true in ibss.c

Refer the following:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2014-December/003982.html

For CT firmware, you have mentioned that "association between stations
works better". Can you elaborate that?

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Chun-Yeow

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 01/27/2015 05:55 AM, Sylvain ROGER RIEUNIER wrote:
>>
>> Dear Michal,
>>
>> I have already tried the CT firmware. Association between stations
>> works better, But the rate control update is still broken.
>> It does not work in HT mode.
>
>
> Rate-ctrl is not a problem with the firmware....some users have reported
> 700Mbps or so in IBSS mode with my firmware.
>
> I haven't managed to get kernel and supplicant properly patched for all
> this yet..but will get it done eventually (and patches should make it up
> stream sometime soon too I think).
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
>>
>>
>> Sylvain
>>
>> 2015-01-27 14:18 GMT+01:00 Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>:
>>>
>>> On 27 January 2015 at 14:08, Sylvain ROGER RIEUNIER
>>> <sylvain.roger.rieunier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I just made some tests with the ath10k driver in IBSS mode and I found
>>>> several problems:
>>>>
>>>> 1) TSF management can't be done correctly. You can't make GET, SET or
>>>> RESET actions, because no command is sent to the firmware. However the
>>>> WMI_RTT_TSF_CMDID command exists. I tried some changes (see patch),
>>>> but they did not produce any effect.
>>>
>>>
>>> This isn't implemented in firmware 636 as far as I know.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2) Rate control update is not functional in the firmware. Data rate is
>>>> stuck at 25 Mbit/s between an ath10k IBSS station and an ath9k IBSS
>>>> station. However the rate control update works fine in mac80211 (I
>>>> checked it thanks to IBSS debug msg) and IE HT settings are correctly
>>>> transmitted on both side (I checked it using a third interface in
>>>> monitor mode). The ath10k_wmi_peer_assoc command does not seem to work
>>>> for reassoc state to update data rate.
>>>
>>>
>>> Janusz has done some patches related to the hw rate control issues
>>> with IBSS recently:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/kvalo/ath/commit/627d9841eaa623e34657af7af0e6293805e07888
>>>
>>> https://github.com/kvalo/ath/commit/55884c045d31a29cf69db8332d1064a1b61dd159
>>>
>>>
>>>> Conclusion: the firmware seems incomplete for IBSS mode operation. Is
>>>> there any planned development on the IBSS mode in the firmware?
>>>>
>>>> Note: I did my tests with the firmware-2.bin_999.999.0.636 firmware.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ben has recently added IBSS support for his 10.1 firmware fork:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ath10k.devel/1023/focus=1026
>>>
>>> You might be interested in giving it a try.
>>>
>>>
>>> Michał
>>
>>
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