next step

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2013-04-28 1:41 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 28 April 2013 00:10, Oleksij Rempel <linux at rempel-privat.de> wrote:
>> So we can build fw without warnings and we have cmake now;)
>>
>> What should be next?
>> Currently what bugs me is rate control.
>> Some decisions seems to me not correct - IMO, especially on STBC part.
>> And i can't use "iw dev wlan1 set bitrate command"  nor "set txpower" seems
>> to work.
>> I would prefer not fixing it on fw side. Instead move it to the host and use
>> shared code... if possible. What do you think?
> 
> I think felix wants to start tackling rate control and pushing some
> more of the TX handling into the host.
> 
> I'd personally prefer to let things settle for a while, whilst we all
> discuss this a bit more.
I think incrementally pushing things to the host is the wrong approach,
that'll just make the ath9k_htc driver bigger and cause the firmware API
to keep changing. I'd prefer to strip the firmware down and add support
for USB devices to ath9k.

- Felix