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On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:59 PM, David Mosberger <davidm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ben,
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 01/07/2016 08:19 AM, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>
> >> We are seeing a curious issue where WLAN connectivity sometimes
> >> gets stuck until a "wpa_cli reassociate" command is issued.
> >>
> >> At the WPA level, everything appears to be working fine)
> >> (see thread starting at
> >> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2016-January/034454.html).
> >
> > I don't remember seeing you mention the driver and NIC you are using.
> >
> > I think this is likely a driver bug, so please provide that info.
>
> Sure, we're using rtl8192cu.  I started out suspecting a driver bug as
> well, but since we're processing management frames during those
> "stuck" periods just fine (see
> debug output in
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2016-January/034459.html),
> I'm not so sure anymore.  Like mac80211, we have patched rtl8192cu
> driver with current
> bug-fixes already.

Management frames use a different queue (VO)
from the logs it looks like a data path issue in driver/FW.

The re-association might be clearing/triggering TX in driver
solving the issue.
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