[ath9k-devel] cancel retransmission series

2012-03-01 Thread Stefan Schmid
Hi, is it possible to cancel the hardware retransmissions of a packet without receiving the corresponding hardware ACK and move on to the next packet in the queue? Thanks, Stefan. ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org

Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC 1/2] ath9k: use ieee80211_free_txskb

2012-03-01 Thread Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
On Thursday 01 March 2012 11:09 AM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote: Hi Christian, On Monday 27 February 2012 09:40 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote: With the new tx status API: mac80211: implement wifi TX status All skb originating from mac80211 needs to be given back to mac80211. Signed-off-by:

Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC 1/2] ath9k: use ieee80211_free_txskb

2012-03-01 Thread Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
On Thursday 01 March 2012 05:12 PM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2012 11:09 AM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote: Hi Christian, On Monday 27 February 2012 09:40 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote: With the new tx status API: mac80211: implement wifi TX status All skb

Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC 2/2] ath9k_htc: use ieee80211_free_txskb

2012-03-01 Thread Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
Hi Christian, On Monday 27 February 2012 10:02 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote: With the new tx status API: mac80211: implement wifi TX status All skb originating from mac80211 needs to be given back to mac80211. Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparterchunk...@googlemail.com --- It compiles, but

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Mohammed Shafi wrote: disabling power save would be a nice idea, to see if this issue disappears. I can not understand why Atheros insists on recommending disable power saving in response to this error which has been pouring out of ath9k hardware and driver for YEARS! It's baffling. Work

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Mohammed Shafi
Work with someone who has hardware clue and just fix the problem. completely agree, we got to fix it. -- thanks, shafi ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

[ath9k-devel] ath9k_htc compatibility issue with virtualbox

2012-03-01 Thread JIN Haozhun
Hi everyone, I read from Internet and archive of this mail list that TP-Link WN821Nv3 (using Atheros AR7010+AR9287) can't work. And that mail suggest this issue related to virtualbox being used. I have come across the same problem. Tested the device on Debian without using virtualbox, and it

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Mieszko Ślusarczyk
Did disabling PM actually help? Wysłane z iPoda Dnia 1 mar 2012 o godz. 06:53 Kim Lidström dex...@lacto.se napisał(a): On 03/01/2012 06:09 AM, Mohammed Shafi wrote: With this message I have attached a log with the error messages. This has been a problem since.. Uhm.. Kernel 3.2.something and

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 1 March 2012 06:46, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Mohammed Shafi wrote: disabling power save would be a nice idea,  to see if this issue disappears. I can not understand why Atheros insists on recommending disable power saving in response to this error which has been pouring out of

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2012-03-01 3:46 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: Mohammed Shafi wrote: disabling power save would be a nice idea, to see if this issue disappears. I can not understand why Atheros insists on recommending disable power saving in response to this error which has been pouring out of ath9k hardware

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Adrian Chadd wrote: I can not understand why Atheros insists on recommending disable power saving in response to this error which has been pouring out of ath9k hardware and driver for YEARS! .. to debug whether it is related to power saving support or not? That isn't debugging, it's just

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Ben Greear
On 03/01/2012 07:04 AM, Mohammed Shafi wrote: Work with someone who has hardware clue and just fix the problem. completely agree, we got to fix it. There are folks with machines that can reproduce this very easily. Maybe offer to rent their system for some short time to see if you can

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Felix Fietkau wrote: just because the error messages are similar does not mean that it's just one bug that has been lurking in the driver for years. I didn't say that it's a single issue, but it's clearly a single class of issues, and I'm surprised that there is noone who can take a hard look

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Ben Greear wrote: Work with someone who has hardware clue and just fix the problem. completely agree, we got to fix it. There are folks with machines that can reproduce this very easily. Maybe offer to rent their system for some short time to see if you can reproduce it in your lab?

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2012-03-01 6:53 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: Felix Fietkau wrote: just because the error messages are similar does not mean that it's just one bug that has been lurking in the driver for years. I didn't say that it's a single issue, but it's clearly a single class of issues, and I'm surprised

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Felix Fietkau wrote: Saying it's a single class of issues does not help in any way, because with the issues I've fixed so far, the cause has been wildly different. Sometimes software race conditions, sometimes wrong register settings, or sometimes actual issues in setting up DMA descriptors.

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Peter Stuge wrote: Suggesting hardware reverse engineering in an open source driver development effort is, well, not what I expect. To clarify a bit; we do this all the time in coreboot, but only for vendors who aren't participating in the community, where we are left with no other choice than

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Sune Mølgaard
Ben Greear wrote: On 03/01/2012 07:04 AM, Mohammed Shafi wrote: Work with someone who has hardware clue and just fix the problem. completely agree, we got to fix it. There are folks with machines that can reproduce this very easily. Maybe offer to rent their system for some short time to

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2012-03-01 8:53 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: Still, DMA is not exotic, and here are DMA problems again. That last sentence makes no sense at all. My point is that DMA by peripheral devices and the drivers to manage it are established technologies in computer busses across the world,

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Felix Fietkau wrote: It is, because the error leads to either or both sides thinking about DMA when they should not. Either or both sides of what? Thinking about DMA? That sentence unfortunately makes no sense to me. One side = driver Other side = hardware Most of the time when the

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to stop Tx DMA and Could not stop RX with AR9485

2012-03-01 Thread Sujith Manoharan
Peter Stuge wrote: I think you may be misunderstanding what I write. I don't think anyone is misunderstanding anything about you, or what you write. Sujith ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org