ath10k + iw set bitrates is causing FW crash

[Krishna Chaitanya]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
> On 07/08/2016 08:44 AM, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/08/2016 08:39 AM, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also can you please tell me how to make ath10k use minstrel rc, its
>>>> needed
>>>> for comparative purposes? Is disable HW_RATE_CONTROL enough or does
>>>> it need more changes?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It cannot be done.  You have to use whatever rate-ctrl is baked into the
>>> firmware.
>>
>> Ok, its a good feature to have.
>>
>
> It is unlikely to happen anytime soon.  It requires significant firmware
> modification (and driver too),
Ok, I understand.
>and probably you would have to add MU-MIMO
> support to minstrel if you wanted to support latest ath10k NICs.
It need not be a full pledged one, but 11ac MIMO works should be
good enough (for now).