Re: [ipwave] Patching Linux Kernel with OCB

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Fri, 21 June 2019 11:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ipwave] Patching Linux Kernel with OCB
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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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