From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
mickflemm@gmail.com, mcgrof@gmail.com, me@bobcopeland.com
Subject: Re: [RFC]: ath5k: enable TXOK IRQ
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:38:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217153829.GB3539@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493F5010.7030500@trash.net>
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:13:52AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> I tried to use ath5k in AP mode with hostapd, but hostapd never
> added the authenticated and associated stations to the kernel.
> The reason is that ath5k didn't invoke the tx tasklet, so it
> did not call the ieee80211_tx_status() function and userspace
> didn't receive the radiotap message indicating success.
>
> The root cause appears to be that the TXOK interrupt is not
> enabled, so the tasklet is never scheduled. I'm not sure whether
> TXOK is really the correct one to handle ! IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK,
> but it fixes the problem for me.
Any comments from the ath5k "usual suspects" on this one?
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-17 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-10 5:13 [RFC]: ath5k: enable TXOK IRQ Patrick McHardy
2008-12-17 15:38 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2008-12-17 16:52 ` Nick Kossifidis
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