[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] Support Candela-Tech ath10k and ath9k out-of-tree driver.

[David Lang]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Ben Greear wrote:

> On 06/21/2016 03:04 PM, David Lang wrote:
>> I'll point out that there is a lot of work being done on these drivers 
>> right now in terms of making significant changes to how they do buffering 
>> that in
>> increasing network speed as well as reducing latency
>> 
>> search the follwoing lists for [make-wifi-fast] to see the details and 
>> benchmarks
>> make-wifi-fast at lists.bufferbloat.net, 
>> ath9k-devel at venema.h4ckr.net,linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org
>
> Yes, and I will pull that stuff into my tree as it becomes stable and/or as I 
> have time.
>
> It seems I have little chance to ever get my ath10k patches in the upsteam 
> kernel, so this is the
> best I can think of for now.
>
> It might be best to entirely decouple my ath10k from ath9k so folks can use 
> stock (LEDE) ath9k
> but my ath10k.  Maybe I simply had some typo in my first attempt at this.
>
> I figure Felix will know better how to make this all work, so this patch 
> should probably
> wait for him to comment on and/or fix.

One more thing that I didn't really see in the patch (but I may have skimmed 
over it)

What is the difference/improvement between the stock driver and the Candela-Tech 
driver? (i.e. as someone configuring LEDE, why would I pick your driver?)

David Lang