Dear Mr. Greear,

I come to you to ask for directions. TRIAGNOSYS Gmbh, a division of Zodiac 
Inflight Innovations part of the SAFRAN GROUP, participate in a research 
project for the ARINC CSS committee aiming at investigating the potential use 
of 5 GHz DFS channels in aircrafts. In order to do that, the partners in this 
project aim to gather information about where radar interference occurs and on 
which channels by monitoring DFS channels during commercial flights. Partners 
including AIRBUS and DELTA AIRLINES have already provided their support.

In order to monitor the DFS channels, a device based on WiFi dongles to be 
installed on planes is currently explored. The Linksys WUSB6100M device based 
on QCA9377 seems a promising choice, especially given the features proposed by 
the ath10k driver. The idea is to put this device in monitor mode and use the 
DFS pattern detector to report DFS events to userspace through 
cfg80211_radar_event/nl80211_radar_notify. This would require some modification 
in kernelspace so that the device does not switch channel upon radar detection. 
An application listening on a netlink socket would then retrieve the data. 
Therefore my question is: do you think this is possible?

In the meantime, trying to use the Linksys device in STA mode does not work as 
the device does not manage to use DMA to allocate the tx buffer with 
dma_alloc_coherent in htt_tx.c. Given that it works for PCI devices, I assume 
that it is firmware-related but have not yet found a workaround. Do you have 
any ideas what might have caused this?

Thank you for any time that you spend considering these questions.

Best regards,
Vincent Guenat.

Vincent Guenat
R&T Embedded Software Engineer
TriaGnoSys GmbH | Zodiac Inflight Innovations
P +49 8153 8867 8238
Argelsrieder Feld 22
82234 Weßling Germany
www.safran-aerosystems.com



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