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Message-ID: <43e72e890808271830k6e0a9e65j790ee1e0d6d52d36@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:30:37 -0700
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
To: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@...il.com>
Cc: "Michael Buesch" <mb@...sch.de>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Bruno Randolf" <bruno@...nktube.com>
Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-08-26
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@...il.com> wrote:
> This patch is marked as W/A and should have
> probably some cleaner solution in 2.6.28
OK
>>> Last solution would be to remove this merging all together
>>
>> Absolutely not! IBSS merge is per spec, otherwise you don't really have
>> a real IBSS.
>
> I'm all for following spec and we've tried really hard to make it work.
> Anyhow I'm not sure what you call real IBSS. nobody has checked it for
> 1.5 year this patch is in and now is suddenly so important...
I don't care about your work around, I was replying due to your insane
comments about considering removing IBSS merge support because your
hardware does not support it well.
> I would like to see if there is any HW under mac80211 that actually
> work with this.
Atheros hardware supports IBSS merge, please consider a proper work
around instead for hardware which does not support this.
Luis
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