Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f180.google.com ([209.85.212.180]:51874 "EHLO mail-wi0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946556Ab2LFTfe (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2012 14:35:34 -0500 Received: by mail-wi0-f180.google.com with SMTP id hj13so820841wib.1 for ; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:35:33 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1354815611-7220-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> References: <1354815611-7220-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:35:33 -0800 Message-ID: (sfid-20121206_203538_116399_9C37BFBB) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "ath9k_hw: Update AR9003 high_power tx gain table" From: Adrian Chadd To: Felix Fietkau Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com, rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 6 December 2012 09:40, Felix Fietkau wrote: > This reverts commit f74b9d365ddd33a375802b064f96a5d0e99af7c0. > > Turns out reverting commit a240dc7b3c7463bd60cf0a9b2a90f52f78aae0fd > "ath9k_hw: Updated AR9003 tx gain table for 5GHz" was not enough to > bring the tx power back to normal levels on devices like the > Buffalo WZR-HP-G450H, this one needs to be reverted as well. > > This revert improves tx power by ~10 db on that device Did anyone figure out why this was happening? Maybe we should look at the HAL commits around the same time to see if someone changed the programming - eg, assuming TPC is always on, or the 2 stream / 3 stream reduction PHY register, or such. Adrian