[PATCH 1/2] p2p: disable 11b rates only on p2p interface creation

Johannes Berg johannes
Thu Oct 20 05:47:40 PDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 18:15 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:

> ath9k_htc supports milti-vifs (max 4 limited by fw). As rate_control runs in fw,
> currently we dont have wmi command to inform no-CCK info to fw. And also per
> packet rate selection for mgmt frames is not supported. 

Then I don't see how it can do P2P and be connected to an 11b AP at the
same time?

> Due to these limitation,
> we can disable 11b rate at init itself for these drivers.

I just don't think it's reasonable to prevent this from working when
it's really just an ath9k_htc bug? Not sure ...

johannes




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