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Re: [ipwave] Patching Linux Kernel with OCB

Nabil Benamar <benamar73@gmail.com> Fri, 21 June 2019 11:41 UTC

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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 14:41:35 +0300
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Subject: Re: [ipwave] Patching Linux Kernel with OCB
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Hi Alex,

Thank you for your comments.
This is exactly what the hackathon participants put in future work!

2 days were not enough to build the testbed and test different drivers and
parameters...

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 14:01 Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Mr. Seur,
>
> I would like to ask you whether you can apply that patch to ath10k also?
> (instead of ath9k).
>
> If you do, you risk being the first to achieve 1Gbps on OCB, hopefully
> with IPv6.
>
> Alex
>
> Le 20/06/2019 à 15:25, John Seur a écrit :
> > Hello IPWavers,
> >
> > During the Hackathon@AIS2019
> > (https://hackathon.internetsummitafrica.org/), the team in IPWave track
> > (led by Nabil Benamar) was patching the Linux kernel 4.9.61 with OCB
> > mode and discovered the following bugs in the patch file
> > (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxK6WTQZ97QVWF9tRURjOGhBU2c/view).
> >    drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:961:2: error: duplicate case
> value
> >    case NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB:
> >    drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c:1241:2: error: duplicate case
> value
> >    case NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB:
> >
> > The duplicated lines of code were commented out and the patch file works!
> >
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