On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Nikolay Martynov <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Currently in ath9k code there is an attempt which is meant to disable ANI 
> for ar9100 and ar9340. But it doesn't really achieve this. All it does is 
> disable ANI init and setup (i.e. calls to ath9k_hw_ani_setup and 
> ath9k_hw_ani_init). Since ath9k_hw_ani_setup is not called 
> ah->config.ani_poll_interval is never initialized (i.e. it is always zero) 
> and ath_ani_calibrate always executes ANI procedures (over uninitialized ANI 
> parameters).
>  Moreover, ath_ani_calibrate is being called each 1ms because 
> common->ani.timer is set to zero interval because 
> ah->config.ani_poll_interval==0 (and thus smallest value of all intervals). 
> Normally it should not be called this often.
>  This patchset makes use of config.enable_ani to check if ANI should be 
> performed. It sets config.enable_ani to false for appropriate platforms.
>  Also last patch in this set enables ANI for ar9100 - it seems to be working 
> fine there (tested on ar9102).
>
>  Question: there are common.disable_ani (and corresponding debugfs file) and 
> config.enable_ani in ath9k code. config.enable_ani sets if ANI is supported 
> and common.disable_ani is meant to disable calibration. This is confusing on 
> a sense that disable_ani completely disables all calibration code including 
> short/long calibration and ANI, not ANI alone. Would it make sense to rename 
> disable_ani to disable_calib and enable_ani to ani_supported?

I understand short and long calibration of ANI, not the complete calibration :)
disable_ani is to stop/start ANI anytime via ath9k debugfs entry.
please let me know if you have further queries

>
>  All comments and suggestions are appreciated.
>  Thanks.
>
> Nikolay Martynov (4):
>  ath9k: cosmetic fix in calibration debug log
>  ath9k: change calibration debug to log all calibration types
>  ath9k: use config.enable_ani to check if ani should be performed
>  ath9k: enable ani for 9100
>
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9002_calib.c |    2 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c |    3 ++-
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c           |   12 ++++++++----
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c         |   12 +++++++-----
>  4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
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