Re: [PATCH 3.4] ath9k: wake up the hardware from full sleep when idle is turned off

[Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>]

On 2012-04-13 4:18 AM, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> The hardware needs a reset to recover from full sleep. Issue this reset
>> directly in the ath9k_config call that turns off idle, otherwise tx
>> remains dead until the first channel change after the idle state change
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c |    9 ++++++++-
>>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
>> index ba5af8e..fcb13e3 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
>> @@ -1584,6 +1584,7 @@ static int ath9k_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 changed)
>>  	struct ath_hw *ah = sc->sc_ah;
>>  	struct ath_common *common = ath9k_hw_common(ah);
>>  	struct ieee80211_conf *conf = &hw->conf;
>> +	bool reset_channel = false;
>>  
>>  	ath9k_ps_wakeup(sc);
>>  	mutex_lock(&sc->mutex);
>> @@ -1592,6 +1593,12 @@ static int ath9k_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 changed)
>>  		sc->ps_idle = !!(conf->flags & IEEE80211_CONF_IDLE);
>>  		if (sc->ps_idle)
>>  			ath_cancel_work(sc);
>> +		else
>> +			/*
>> +			 * The chip needs a reset to properly wake up from
>> +			 * full sleep
>> +			 */
>> +			reset_channel = ah->chip_fullsleep;
> 
> This doesn't seem to work...
> 
> Since IDLE is broken currently, the HW never enters FULL_SLEEP mode and
> reset_channel will always be zero, and a chip reset will be done only via
> IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_CHANNEL.
Consider this preparation for fixing idle mode.

- Felix