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From: Tom Psyborg <pozega.tomislav@gmail.com>
To: Tim Schumacher <timschumi@gmx.de>
Cc: QCA ath9k Development <ath9k-devel@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: Check for errors when reading SREV register
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:38:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKR_QVKWbrx2EmcaCBhyuaYRd+T3pFW0i2jVcDZG6=wee=DaMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57195909-b18b-8490-e1b8-043ff9727e5a@gmx.de>

On 19/03/2019, Tim Schumacher <timschumi@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> The case in where the revision succeeded to read, but it simply
> isn't supported by the driver, is untouched and it still prints
> the original message.
>

In that case this change is fine.

> I don't know why it fails to read the SREV register in my specific
> case (I tracked it down to a WMI command timeout, which seems to
> only happen on a Raspberry Pi 3), but having the SREV error message
> (which points to the actual issue) instead of the false-positive
> "Rev not supported" message would have saved me quite some time that
> I spent with debugging the issue, searching for the source of the
> wrong value.
>

Did you try some other device than RPI3 ? I've noticed that on router
and laptop while doing some htc fw builds.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-19 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-18 19:05 [PATCH] ath9k: Check for errors when reading SREV register Tim Schumacher
2019-03-18 22:35 ` Tom Psyborg
2019-03-19  6:41   ` Tim Schumacher
2019-03-19 23:38     ` Tom Psyborg [this message]
2019-03-20  5:35       ` Tim Schumacher
2019-03-21 10:02 ` Kalle Valo
2019-03-22  1:47   ` Tim Schumacher
2019-03-22  8:37     ` Kalle Valo
2019-04-29 14:53 ` Kalle Valo

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