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From: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
To: Florian Achleitner <flo@fopen.at>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>,
	Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>,
	Maithili Hinge <maithili@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] mwifiex: Driver - Firmware Glitches
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:19:13 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150416101913.GA26748@us.netrek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3169170.GKjfvNuGRf@r90b40zn>

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:10:02AM +0200, Florian Achleitner wrote:
> Is the necessity of frequent hardware resets a commonly known issue
> with this chip/firmware? Anybody else experiencing these?

Yes, but how frequent?

> Currently, we see three different scenarios. One of them is
> currently not answered by reset. Refer to the upcoming patch.
> 
> (1)  mwifiex_cmd_timeout_func: Timeout cmd .. Ok, after reset.

See this a lot during heavy testing.

> (2)  Firmware wakeup failed.. Ok, after reset.

Never see this.

> (3) DNLD_CMD: host to card failed. No reset triggered. See patch.

Very rarely see this.

However, our experience may not be comparable; we are using 8787 with
a 3.5 kernel, because we haven't the resources to use a later kernel
or get backports working.

Also, we use WOL (wake on lan) heavily; frequent automatic suspends,
with a GPIO wakeup in addition to the SDHCI.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-16 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-16  9:10 [RFC/PATCH] mwifiex: Driver - Firmware Glitches Florian Achleitner
2015-04-16  9:14 ` [PATCH] mwifiex: Trigger a card reset on "DNLD_CMD: host to card failed" Florian Achleitner
2015-05-09 13:35   ` Kalle Valo
2015-05-09 16:18     ` Florian Achleitner
2015-05-11  6:35       ` Kalle Valo
2015-04-16  9:30 ` [RFC/PATCH] mwifiex: Driver - Firmware Glitches Amitkumar Karwar
2015-04-16 10:34   ` Florian Achleitner
2015-04-16 11:21     ` Amitkumar Karwar
2015-04-16 13:19       ` Florian Achleitner
2015-04-17  8:29         ` Florian Achleitner
2015-04-17  9:45           ` Amitkumar Karwar
2015-04-23  8:33             ` Florian Achleitner
2015-04-23  8:43               ` James Cameron
2015-04-23  9:48                 ` Avinash Patil
2015-04-16 10:19 ` James Cameron [this message]
2015-04-16 10:43   ` Florian Achleitner
2015-04-16 11:11     ` Avinash Patil

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