Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:04:57 -0400
From: Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>
To: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.wireless@gmail.com>
Cc: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilb@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ath9k_htc fails to initialize TL-WN721N with compat-wireless
 3.0-rc4-1
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Hi shafi,

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:01:04AM +0530, Mohammed Shafi wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Mohammed Shafi <shafi.wireless@gmail.com>=
 wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net=
> wrote:
> >> Hi shafi,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:23:50AM -0400, Mohammed Shafi wrote:
> >>> attached a reverting patch for LED, did a basic test and looks fine.
> >>> need to investigate in this for backporting. =A0we have not tested in
> >>> 2.6.24 kernel
> >>
> >> Yes, this seems to fix things. =A0I can bring the interface up now and=
 get
> >> scanning results. =A0I will test further and let you know how things g=
o.
> >
> > let me quickly check if undefine CONFIG_MAC80211_LEDS in ath9k_htc in
> > latest wireless-testing and if i get a lock up or panic
>=20
> it did not help, got an idea its a locking issue in com pat, I don't
> know why its happening for the older kernel. made it working by
> commenting out few spinlocks,

Okay, in the meantime I am up and running with hostapd.  I have been testin=
g for
a few hours and have not seen problems, so this setup appears to be relativ=
ely
stable.

Of course I am happy to test any other patches you would like to try.

Thanks,
Forest
--=20
Forest Bond
http://www.alittletooquiet.net
http://www.rapidrollout.com

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