From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@linux.intel.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: add option to disable 5GHz band
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:21:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F901F51.3000704@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334830280-3019-1-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com>
On 4/19/2012 3:11 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> There are various problems happened on 5GHz band not observed on
> 2.4 GHz (microcode errors, queue stuck, etc... ) . Also roaming
> between 5GHz AP and 2GHz does not work very well. To workaround
> the problems add option to disable 5GHz support. This will help
> on environments where APs are dual-band, and devices will not try
> to associate on band where issues happen.
Would it make sense to somehow do this in cfg80211? Today, our driver
may be the only one having this problem (which I've never really heard
about?), but is it always going to be?
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 10:11 [PATCH] iwlwifi: add option to disable 5GHz band Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-04-19 13:50 ` Guy, Wey-Yi
2012-04-19 14:02 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-04-19 14:21 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-04-19 15:56 ` Marcel Holtmann
2012-04-19 17:06 ` Guy, Wey-Yi
2012-04-20 7:36 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4F901F51.3000704@sipsolutions.net \
--to=johannes@sipsolutions.net \
--cc=ilw@linux.intel.com \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=sgruszka@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.