Madwifi porting to Ath9k

Madwifi porting to Ath9k

[Arul jothi]

Hi,

  I have AR7161 based board which is using customized madwifi driver
with PCF implementation.
I need to port the driver to new board based on AR9344.
What should be the approach I should take

1.       Build Madwifi with current AR9344 Openwrt build

2.       Implement PCF with current Ath9k driver.


Please advise which approach I should take. Can someone help me with
some clue on that.
Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Arul.

Re: Madwifi porting to Ath9k

[Oleksij Rempel]

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Am 23.07.2017 um 15:54 schrieb Arul jothi:
> Hi,
> 
>   I have AR7161 based board which is using customized madwifi driver
> with PCF implementation.
> I need to port the driver to new board based on AR9344.
> What should be the approach I should take
> 
> 1.       Build Madwifi with current AR9344 Openwrt build
> 
> 2.       Implement PCF with current Ath9k driver.
> 
> 
> Please advise which approach I should take. Can someone help me with
> some clue on that.
> Thanks in advance.

In long term it is preferable to extend upstream version of the driver
(ath9k) aaand upstream you patches as well.

ath9k has big developer community and good testing coverage.

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Regards,
Oleksij


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Re: Madwifi porting to Ath9k

[Arul jothi]

Hi Oleksij,

   Thanks for your reply. I am new to the linux wireless.
Does ath9k has support for PCF implementation ? I couldn't find any
reference about PCF in ath9k.

Do you mean porting madwifi code to ath9k is straight forward ?.
Please give some link or guideliness.

Regards,
Arul.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> wrote:
> Am 23.07.2017 um 15:54 schrieb Arul jothi:
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I have AR7161 based board which is using customized madwifi driver
>> with PCF implementation.
>> I need to port the driver to new board based on AR9344.
>> What should be the approach I should take
>>
>> 1.       Build Madwifi with current AR9344 Openwrt build
>>
>> 2.       Implement PCF with current Ath9k driver.
>>
>>
>> Please advise which approach I should take. Can someone help me with
>> some clue on that.
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> In long term it is preferable to extend upstream version of the driver
> (ath9k) aaand upstream you patches as well.
>
> ath9k has big developer community and good testing coverage.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Oleksij
>

Re: Madwifi porting to Ath9k

[Oleksij Rempel]

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Am 24.07.2017 um 08:08 schrieb Arul jothi:
> Hi Oleksij,
> 
>    Thanks for your reply. I am new to the linux wireless.
> Does ath9k has support for PCF implementation ? I couldn't find any
> reference about PCF in ath9k.
> 
> Do you mean porting madwifi code to ath9k is straight forward ?.
> Please give some link or guideliness.

- Isolate PCF code in Madwifi
- port it to the ath9k if possible
- do lots of testing
- send patches for review.

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Regards,
Oleksij


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Re: Madwifi porting to Ath9k

[Arul jothi]

Can someone from Atheros confirm that PCF is supported in AR9344 /
9342 hardware.
I doubt, PCF might not work without hardware support.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> wrote:
> Am 24.07.2017 um 08:08 schrieb Arul jothi:
>> Hi Oleksij,
>>
>>    Thanks for your reply. I am new to the linux wireless.
>> Does ath9k has support for PCF implementation ? I couldn't find any
>> reference about PCF in ath9k.
>>
>> Do you mean porting madwifi code to ath9k is straight forward ?.
>> Please give some link or guideliness.
>
> - Isolate PCF code in Madwifi
> - port it to the ath9k if possible
> - do lots of testing
> - send patches for review.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Oleksij
>