Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:62931 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753840Ab0GCAxX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 20:53:23 -0400 Received: by iwn7 with SMTP id 7so3795998iwn.19 for ; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:53:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1278022192-83277-6-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> References: <1278022192-83277-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> <1278022192-83277-2-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> <1278022192-83277-3-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> <1278022192-83277-4-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> <1278022192-83277-5-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> <1278022192-83277-6-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 02:53:12 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] ath9k: fix false positives in the baseband hang check From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Smedman?= To: Felix Fietkau Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, lrodriguez@atheros.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Felix Fietkau wrote: > ath9k_hw_check_alive() occasionally returns false, as the hardware > is still processing data in a specific state. Fix this issue by > repeating the test a few times with longer delay inbetween attempts. > This gets rid of excessive hardware resets that appear frequently on > some AR9132 based devices, but could also happen on AR9280. > > Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau > Reported-by: Bj?rn Smedman > Cc: stable@kernel.org Tested-by: Bj?rn Smedman No false positives. By the way, ath9k has never felt so solid on AR9100 as after this patch series. Huge thanx, especially for the initvals update! :) /Bj?rn