Return-path: Received: from mail-vb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:42090 "EHLO mail-vb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753548Ab2DIIpk (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2012 04:45:40 -0400 Received: by vbbff1 with SMTP id ff1so2130140vbb.19 for ; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:45:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4F7A8EB7.4060200@silka.with-linux.com> <4F7A923D.5000002@candelatech.com> <4F7A9D5C.8040402@silka.with-linux.com> <4F7AAAD9.2040307@silka.with-linux.com> <4F7AB6FE.3080009@silka.with-linux.com> <20120403200306.0afbb48b@xenia.leun.net> <20120404235104.682cfad3@xenia.leun.net> <4F7DE3A4.1040705@candelatech.com> <4F7F52BD.7060906@candelatech.com> <20120409010816.36244f17@xenia.leun.net> From: Sergio Correia Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 04:45:19 -0400 Message-ID: (sfid-20120409_104554_668952_24944CE0) Subject: Re: 3.4-rc ath9k regression (Re: [ath9k-devel] 3.3.1 ath9k regression) To: Mohammed Shafi Cc: Michael Leun , Ben Greear , casteyde.christian@free.fr, Kelly Anderson , "ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Felix Fietkau , linux-wireless Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello Mohammed, On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Mohammed Shafi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Michael Leun > wrote: >> After an suspend to disk / resume cycle (in kernel suspend to disk, >> openSuSE) with 3.4-rc2 my ath9k wireless does not ping >> anymore. >> >> Output of iwconfig wlan0 looks just as usual (associated to AP). >> >> iwconfig wlan0 essid fixes this (causes an >> deauthenticate/authenticate with AP) - then connectivity is there again. >> >> Guess what: "Of course" does not happen when reverting >> c1afdaff90538ef085b756454f12b29575411214 ath9k: fix going to full-sleep >> on PS idle. >> >> So, in my opinion it should be seriously considered to revert that patch >> until it is fully understood what is going on and why. > > please try with the attached patch to see if it helps. > with your patch applied on a 3.3 kernel, nothing seems to change here (AR9285 PCI express): if the card goes through the suspend/resume cycle, or if I disable/re-enabled the wireless networking on the network manager, I get the following messages: [ 62.931045] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 65.770425] wlan0: authenticate with 00:26:44:68:e0:6f (try 1) [ 65.967949] wlan0: authenticate with 00:26:44:68:e0:6f (try 2) [ 66.167722] wlan0: authenticate with 00:26:44:68:e0:6f (try 3) [ 66.367504] wlan0: authentication with 00:26:44:68:e0:6f timed out if I unload/reload the ath9k module, it works again, though: [ 88.657560] ath9k: Driver unloaded [ 88.714713] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x60 [ 88.714715] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map [ 88.714718] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00 [ 88.714720] ath: Regpair used: 0x60 [ 88.716415] ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control' [ 88.716933] Registered led device: ath9k-phy1 [ 88.716948] ieee80211 phy1: Atheros AR9285 Rev:2 mem=0xffffc90005960000, irq=17 [ 88.735253] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 91.568727] wlan0: authenticate with 00:26:44:68:e0:6f (try 1) [ 91.572181] wlan0: authenticated [ 91.593796] wlan0: associate with 00:26:44:68:e0:6f (try 1) [ 91.598115] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:26:44:68:e0:6f (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2) [ 91.598119] wlan0: associated [ 91.598122] wlan0: moving STA 00:26:44:68:e0:6f to state 1 [ 91.598124] wlan0: moving STA 00:26:44:68:e0:6f to state 2 [ 91.598775] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [ 91.611432] wlan0: moving STA 00:26:44:68:e0:6f to state 3 thanks, sergio >> >> It may look theoretically correct (I've no knowledge that would enable >> me assess that), but it seems to have caused 3 more or less different >> problems to various people. >> >> -- >> MfG, >> >> Michael Leun >> > > > > -- > thanks, > shafi