Re: ath11k: qca6390 firmware crashes while connecting to 160 MHz channel

From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org>
Cc: ath11k@lists.infradead.org, Justin Mazzola Paluska <jmp@justinmp.com>
Subject: Re: ath11k: qca6390 firmware crashes while connecting to 160 MHz channel
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:55:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rcz9m9j.fsf@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae28fa90b517a293d0a61278ceb834db@codeaurora.org> (Wen Gong's message of "Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:37:09 +0800")

Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org> writes:

> On 2021-03-01 15:54, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org> writes:
>>
>>> On 2021-02-14 02:36, Justin Mazzola Paluska wrote:
>>>> On 2/12/21 1:16 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>>>> Justin Mazzola Paluska <jmp@justinmp.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/11/21 6:10 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>>>>>> (changing the title to find this easier)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Justin Mazzola Paluska <jmp@justinmp.com> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 12/21/20 12:11 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> My router supports 160 MHz channels in the 5 GHz bands [1].  I
>>>>>>>>>> switched the router to advertising 80 MHz channels and the
>>>>>>>>>> card could
>>>>>>>>>> connect.
>>>>>>>>> Thanks for the detailed debugging, this should help us
>>>>>>>>> reproducing the
>>>>>>>>> problem. What's the exact openwrt version you are using?
>>>>>>>> The OpenWRT version is:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> OpenWrt 19.07.5 r11257-5090152ae3 / LuCI openwrt-19.07 branch
>>>>>>>> git-20.341.57626-51f55b5
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (This is the latest stable release.)
>>>>>>> Thanks. I got a report that this might be due to commit
>>>>>>> 3579994476b6
>>>>>>> ("wireless: fix wrong 160/80+80 MHz setting"). Can you try
>>>>>>> reverting the
>>>>>>> commit just to confirm we are seeing the same issue?
>>>>>> I will try over the weekend.  Shall I still use the
>>>>>> ath11k-qca6390-bringup branch or something else?  (I'm still
>>>>>> running
>>>>>> the ath11k-qca6390-bringup branch on my laptop).
>>>>> Yes, use the same branch. Least amount of changes that way.
>>>>
>>>> I reverted 3579994476b6 and re-enabled 160 MHz channels on my
>>>> router. 
>>>> I was able to connect to my router using the 5 GHz band at 80 MHz (as
>>>> expected).
>>>>
>>>> It seems that reverting 3579994476b6 fixed the firmware crash with
>>>> 160
>>>> MHz channels!
>>>>
>>>> I'll leave my router in 160 MHz mode for a while to see if there are
>>>> any problems that crop up over time.
>>>
>>> Does anyone trying revert this patch(3579994476b6 wireless: fix wrong
>>> 160/80+80 MHz setting) upstream?
>>
>> Yes, Justin reports above that he reverted commit 3579994476b6 and the
>> firmware did not crash after that.
>
> I know that. Has someone sent patch to revert it in public?

I don't recall seeing any reverts for this.

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