How to access the CCA related operation

[Ben Greear]

It is in firmware, and you cannot reliably poke it through the driver
read/write register API because each time the radio resets (channel change, etc), it is
liable to re-write the CCA registers back to default values.

There is a large list of registers with 'CCA' in the name, but I don't
know what they really mean, and I had hard time getting that info out
of QCA.  If you have any better luck, please post whatever you can
share.

Thanks,
Ben


On 08/23/2015 11:21 PM, Seowoo Jang wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are trying to evaluate our idea on 802.11ac protocol with Atheros qca9880
> / ath10k driver.
>
> We would like to be able to access/know the result of the CCA (clear channel
> assessment) operation
> or the level of interference on the carrier when we need.
>
> We have dug into the driver files and concluded that the CCA related values
> are likely
> in the firmware or on the registers of the hardware.
>
> And please correct us if we are thinking wrong.
>
> We would appreciate the help if someone can give us some starting points,
> such as the address of the register that stores the carrier sensing values
> (CCA values)
> or the result of it (whether the carrier is busy or idle), to investigate.
>
> The chipset we are using is compex WLE900VX-7AA.
>
> We are currently using Ubuntu 14.04.03 with kernel version 4.1.5,
> but we can use any versions of OS and kernel if they support 802.11ac
> bandwidth.
>
> Thank you for help in advance.
>
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> Seowoo Jang, Ph.D.
> Ubiquitous Network Laboratory
> EECS, Seoul National University
>
> CEL   +82-10-3723-3401
> E-mail swjang at netlab.snu.ac.kr
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>
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