ath10k + iw set bitrates is causing FW crash

[Krishna Chaitanya]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Manoharan, Rajkumar
<rmanohar at qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> >> Thanks Raj, with this fix the rates are 0-7, if i disable then i am
>> >> seeing 0-9, so its
>> >> working.
>> >>
>> >> But i am seeing a weird issues, the moment i give bitrates command,
>> >> ath10k no longer does encryption, link is a WPA2-PSK: AES. Even after
>> >> interface up/down
>> >> it doesn't work.
>>> After reboot i dont see the "unencrypted" packet issue, i will do
>>> some more testing on limiting the rates, currently in my setup its
>>> not reaching MCS9 so cannot verify now.
>> Rajkumar,
>>
>> I am still not able to make mcs9 work, so i have tried to change the Nss to 1
>> using iw, but that is not taking affect. This command is not taking effect.
>>
> you mean not able to fix VHT rates alone. am i right? By auto rate mode, is firmware selecting
> mcs9? What is the command used for fixing vht rate?
Basically my requirement is to disable MCS8 and 9 for comparison.
to check whether ath10k honors the iw command, i used below
command. changing to 1SS, but i could see that it still transmits
using 2SS. Does your patch ignore these settings except for
adhoc mode?

iw set bitrates vht-mcs-5 1:0-7