From: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:55:45 +0530
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>, ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net,
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Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC] ath9k: Detect and work-around tx-queue hang.
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Felix Fietkau wrote:
> Please also check if the station(s) that the frames are queued for are
> in powersave state for some reason. That would prevent the tx path from
> throwing them in the hw queue, yet they'd still take up pending-frame
> slots. I was planning on fixing this eventually by expiring frames that
> stay in the queue for too long, but haven't decided on the exact
> approach yet.

PS is disabled for multi-VIF.

Sujith