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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
To: Rajkumar Manoharan <Rajkumar.Manoharan@Atheros.com>
Cc: "linville\@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k_htc: Enable fastcc for HTC devices.
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:48:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5gw574c.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EE5C37ADC36343B0625A05DD408C4850DAB4D6C2@CHEXMB-01.global.atheros.com> (Rajkumar Manoharan's message of "Tue\, 14 Sep 2010 23\:14\:17 +0530")

Rajkumar Manoharan <Rajkumar.Manoharan@Atheros.com> writes:

>>For example, I have no idea what fastcc means. Fast C Compiler? ;)
>
> On every channel set, the full hw reset happens which issue mutiple
> register writes. For HTC devices, the host issue wmi commands. These
> register ops are time consumable one. Instead of full hw reset,
> ath9k is doing partial reset which is fast channel change (fastcc).
> By doing fast channel change, the scan period is considerably
> reduced.

Now this is a good commit message. I can understand what the change is
actually about without browsing through ath9k source. Of course it
takes few minutes to write this but on the other hand you save a lot
of time from others. And possibly avoid answering to stupid questions
like the one I had :)

Thanks.

-- 
Kalle Valo

      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-03  7:11 [PATCH] ath9k_htc: Enable fastcc for HTC devices Rajkumar Manoharan
2010-09-14 13:35 ` Kalle Valo
2010-09-14 17:44   ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2010-09-14 21:48     ` Kalle Valo [this message]

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