Disable ratecontrol for ATH9K_HTC

[Oleksij Rempel]

Looks interesting

Hope to see good patches some day :D

Am 15.03.2015 um 10:50 schrieb Pieter Robyns:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've created a fork of the firmware intended for experimental /
> research functionality such as fixing the data rate, disabling carrier
> sensing, convenient printing, etc. The repository is located here:
> https://github.com/rpp0/open-ath9k-htc-firmware.
> 
> This modified firmware fixes the rate to a certain hardcoded value out
> of the box - no driver modification required. However, if you use my
> driver as well (https://github.com/rpp0/linux), there are some
> additional features which you can use, such as printing to dmesg over
> USB instead of over UART, setting the fixed rate with a userspace
> program, setting register values, etc.
> 
> The driver uses netlink for communication with userspace instead of
> debugfs, because for some features I needed bidirectional
> communication. Currently you can only use the driver with one device
> at a time. I'll try to add some documentation and an example program
> that explains how to use the netlink interface today.
> 
> Hopefully, this is useful to somebody!
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Pieter
> 
> 2015-03-15 7:57 GMT+01:00 Oleksij Rempel <linux at rempel-privat.de>:
>> Am 12.03.2015 um 10:28 schrieb Steger, Marco:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I'm planning some IEEE802.11s measurements using a TP-Link TL-WN722N stick on Debian (3.19). For that it would be great to disable the rate control of the ATH9K_HTC driver module (use a fixed bitrate). The iw command doesn't seem to work and as far as I understand, the ATH9k_HTC isn't using the minstrel algorithm located in MAC80211 module.
>>>
>>> Is there a way (command, flag, patch) to disable ratecontrol?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Marco
>>>
>>> Ps.: Please apologize if this was already asked before, but I wasn't able to open the archive of the mailing list via the homepage today
>>
>> Yea, this question is one of frequent :)
>> This topic need work and we have not enough map power. Every one who can
>> work on it is really welcome.
>>
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