Re: [PATCH regression/bisected] Revert "brcmsmac: support 4313iPA"

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:31:00AM +0100, Piotr Haber wrote:
> On 03/25/13 19:58, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 02:58:08PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote:
> >> Hi Piotr
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> wrote:
> >>> On 03/18/13 11:45, David Herrmann wrote:
> >>>> This reverts commit b6fc28a158076ca2764edc9a6d1e1402f56e1c0c. It breaks
> >>>> wireless AP reconnection on: (14e4:4727)
> >>>>   Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
> >>>>
> >>>> Any attempt to reconnect to an AP results in timeouts no matter how near to the
> >>>> AP I am:
> >>>>  00:10:40 $nb kernel: wlan0: authenticate with 00:18:39:0a:8e:23
> >>>>  00:10:40 $nb kernel: wlan0: direct probe to 00:18:39:0a:8e:23 (try 1/3)
> >>>>  00:10:40 $nb kernel: wlan0: direct probe to 00:18:39:0a:8e:23 (try 2/3)
> >>>>  00:10:41 $nb kernel: wlan0: direct probe to 00:18:39:0a:8e:23 (try 3/3)
> >>>>  00:10:41 $nb kernel: wlan0: authentication with 00:18:39:0a:8e:23 timed out
> >>>> ---
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> I tried coming up with a fix instead of reverting this commit, but the commit is
> >>>> way to big for me to understand what's going on. Sorry.
> >>>>
> >>>> With linux-3.8 connecting to an AP broke on my machine. I could connect to an AP
> >>>> one time, but any further attempt resulted in:
> >>>>  00:10:40 $nb kernel: wlan0: authenticate with 00:18:39:0a:8e:23
> >>>>  00:10:40 $nb kernel: wlan0: direct probe to 00:18:39:0a:8e:23 (try 1/3)
> >>>>  00:10:40 $nb kernel: wlan0: direct probe to 00:18:39:0a:8e:23 (try 2/3)
> >>>>  00:10:41 $nb kernel: wlan0: direct probe to 00:18:39:0a:8e:23 (try 3/3)
> >>>>  00:10:41 $nb kernel: wlan0: authentication with 00:18:39:0a:8e:23 timed out
> >>>>
> >>>> Even sitting right next to the AP didn't help so I started bisecting and it
> >>>> turned out to be:
> >>>>   "brcmsmac: support 4313iPA" b6fc28a158076ca2764edc9a6d1e1402f56e1c0c
> >>>> Please revert it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>> David
> >>>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> unfortunately this is not a first report of this patch breaking 4313 for some users.
> >>> I'm pretty confident that it is hardware revision related as we have 4313ePA and iPA boards running
> >>> successfully in our test setup.
> >>> Could you aid us in effort of finding the problem by supplying the contents of this debugfs file:
> >>> <debugfs_mount>/brcmsmac/bcma0:0/hardware
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/brcmsmac/bcma0\:0/hardware
> >> board vendor: 185f
> >> board type: 51a
> >> board revision: 1408
> >> board flags: 8402a01
> >> board flags2: 880
> >> firmware revision: 262032b
> >>
> >> I can also try partial reverts of that commit, but I really don't know
> >> which parts might be important.
> > 
> > Are we going to see a fix for this (very) soon?  Or should I just go
> > ahead and revert this patch?
> > 
> I cannot reproduce the issue on a set of devices we have here (3 different 4313 ePA models).
> Some of the devices that are reported to be broken are being shipped to us.
> So I would say we need around 2 weeks at least to resolve this (if we reproduce the problem and find
> a fix).
> Not sure this is soon enough.
> If not please go ahead an revert the patch.

I am reverting the patch.

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