Ath 11n TX update

[Berislav Purgar]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've fixed a bunch of TX related bugs which has made TX quite a bit more
> stable.
>
> There's still one bug which is causing TX timeouts. I've added some
> further debugging to the TX code.
>
> I'd appreciate it if people would be willing to update and test this
> code. I think it's almost ready to be used in station mode.
> The lack of filtered frames handling is going to make hostap support
> of power-saving stations perform quite badly.
>
> The only real problems right now:
>
> * The lack of BAR frame sending means that there will be traffic
> pauses in certain situations.
>   What I may do is flip on the printfs again so you'll at least see
> -when- the BAR frames would be TXed.
>
> * The rate control code is still suboptimal and looks to be the
> primary reason why TCP TX throughput doesn't remain very stable. It's
> still usable though!
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Adrian
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Hello Adrian


latest svn update  (225460) has errror in if_ath_tx.c

-c /root/ath/head/sys/modules/ath/../../dev/ath/if_ath_tx.c
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
/root/ath/head/sys/modules/ath/../../dev/ath/if_ath_tx.c: In function
'ath_tx_addto_baw':
/root/ath/head/sys/modules/ath/../../dev/ath/if_ath_tx.c:1825: warning:
'tap' is used uninitialized in this function
*** Error code 1

Stop in /root/ath/head/sys/modules/ath.

Beri