ath10k + iw set bitrates is causing FW crash

[Ben Greear]

On 07/22/2016 05:21 AM, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
> 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

You can set the number of spatial streams on the phy device.  Search around
for a 'chainmask' configurable.

In general, stock ath10k firmware does not have full support for setting
arbitrary bitrates options.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com