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Re: [PATCH] Revert "ath9k_hw: Update AR9003 high_power tx gain table"

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On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:35:33AM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 6 December 2012 09:40, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This reverts commit f74b9d365ddd33a375802b064f96a5d0e99af7c0.
> >
> > Turns out reverting commit a240dc7b3c7463bd60cf0a9b2a90f52f78aae0fd
> > "ath9k_hw: Updated AR9003 tx gain table for 5GHz" was not enough to
> > bring the tx power back to normal levels on devices like the
> > Buffalo WZR-HP-G450H, this one needs to be reverted as well.
> >
> > This revert improves tx power by ~10 db on that device
> 
> Did anyone figure out why this was happening?
> 
> Maybe we should look at the HAL commits around the same time to see if
> someone changed the programming - eg, assuming TPC is always on, or
> the 2 stream / 3 stream reduction PHY register, or such.
> 
Generally we update initval taken from Systems team. We might have missed to
program the some registers while updating initvals. I prefer to fix the missing
portion rather than reverting ini tables. Otherwise we end up with using
older initvals and hard to debug hw related issues.

-Rajkumar
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