From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from nbd.name ([46.4.11.11]:51252 "EHLO nbd.name" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932272Ab2DMIE6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:04:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4F87DE24.9040409@openwrt.org> (sfid-20120413_100548_438988_489E20EC) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:04:52 +0200 From: Felix Fietkau MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sujith Manoharan CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.4] ath9k: wake up the hardware from full sleep when idle is turned off References: <1334255791-55353-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> <20359.36073.677675.375722@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <20359.36073.677675.375722@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2012-04-13 4:18 AM, Sujith Manoharan wrote: > Felix Fietkau wrote: >> The hardware needs a reset to recover from full sleep. Issue this reset >> directly in the ath9k_config call that turns off idle, otherwise tx >> remains dead until the first channel change after the idle state change >> >> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau >> --- >> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c | 9 ++++++++- >> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c >> index ba5af8e..fcb13e3 100644 >> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c >> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c >> @@ -1584,6 +1584,7 @@ static int ath9k_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 changed) >> struct ath_hw *ah = sc->sc_ah; >> struct ath_common *common = ath9k_hw_common(ah); >> struct ieee80211_conf *conf = &hw->conf; >> + bool reset_channel = false; >> >> ath9k_ps_wakeup(sc); >> mutex_lock(&sc->mutex); >> @@ -1592,6 +1593,12 @@ static int ath9k_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 changed) >> sc->ps_idle = !!(conf->flags & IEEE80211_CONF_IDLE); >> if (sc->ps_idle) >> ath_cancel_work(sc); >> + else >> + /* >> + * The chip needs a reset to properly wake up from >> + * full sleep >> + */ >> + reset_channel = ah->chip_fullsleep; > > This doesn't seem to work... > > Since IDLE is broken currently, the HW never enters FULL_SLEEP mode and > reset_channel will always be zero, and a chip reset will be done only via > IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_CHANNEL. Consider this preparation for fixing idle mode. - Felix