On Monday 29 March 2010 10:42:11 Bob Copeland wrote:
> Review spotted a couple of strange invocations to
> ieee80211_wake_queues that could potentially cause problems:
> 
>  - queues are awakened in the calibration tasklet before
>    phy calibration, and then again after calibration
> 
>  - queues are awakened inside reset when we're trying to
>    drain the ath5k transmit queues, and again after
>    reset is completed (in callers to ath5k_reset_wake).
> 
> In both cases the first reset works at cross purposes to the
> goal of pausing transmissions, so nix them.

i don't understand this sentence...

> Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <m...@bobcopeland.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c index c085a06..38c41e3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
> @@ -1636,7 +1636,6 @@ ath5k_txq_cleanup(struct ath5k_softc *sc)
>                                       sc->txqs[i].link);
>                       }
>       }
> -     ieee80211_wake_queues(sc->hw); /* XXX move to callers */
> 
>       for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(sc->txqs); i++)
>               if (sc->txqs[i].setup)
> @@ -2775,7 +2774,7 @@ ath5k_tasklet_calibrate(unsigned long data)
>                * to load new gain values.
>                */
>               ATH5K_DBG(sc, ATH5K_DEBUG_RESET, "calibration, resetting\n");
> -             ath5k_reset_wake(sc);
> +             ath5k_reset(sc, sc->curchan);
>       }
>       if (ath5k_hw_phy_calibrate(ah, sc->curchan))
>               ATH5K_ERR(sc, "calibration of channel %u failed\n",

couldn't we then also get rid of ath5k_reset_wake() completely? i think we 
need to re-think the whole queue handling and reset code, but this seems like 
a good start.

bruno
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