On Thursday 16 April 2015 20:19:13 James Cameron wrote: > 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? Depends on the specific hardware. Averages follow. > > > 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. Also a lot, maybe once a day in low load. > > > (2) Firmware wakeup failed.. Ok, after reset. > > Never see this. Once a day. > > > (3) DNLD_CMD: host to card failed. No reset triggered. See patch. > > Very rarely see this. Also very rarely. Once a week, probably. > > 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. We don't use WOL or suspends. Regards, Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
