Re: A few questions about modifications in carl9170

[Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>]

On Tuesday 28 September 2010 01:23:57 Ignacy Gawedzki wrote:
> And while writing that email, I left the card plugged in the USB socket.  In
> the meantime, I got the following:
> 
>   usb 5-1: no command feedback received (-110).
>   carl9170 cmd: 08 01 00 00 04 40 1d 00 00 00 00 00              .....@......
>   usb 5-1: restart device (6)
>   ieee80211 phy1: writing reg 0x1d4004 (val 0x0) failed (-110)
>   usb 5-1: device restarted successfully.
> 
> Then when I unplugged it:
> 
>   usb 5-1: USB disconnect, address 11
> 
> And finally upon modprobe -r carl9170:
> 
>   usbcore: deregistering interface driver carl9170
> 
> And now modprobe is stuck in D+. :/

yup, this should be fixed by "[PATCH] carl9170: fix hung workqueue".
 
> I now wonder how that could possibly be due to my modifications in the driver
> and mac80211 (in a nutshell: retrieve the measurement per frame from the FW
> and collect it into a stats structure in the sta descriptor, which is later
> retrieved from userspace through netlink).  I'll try without these and report
> back if that still happens.
hm, you could also add a "custom" RADIO_TAP field. This way you could use
wireshark to monitor the round trip times for each individual frame
(this way you could also export the frames' duration + tx vectors too)

Regards,
	Christian