On Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:41:44 +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Some ath9k chips can, seemingly at random, end up in a state which can
> be described as "deaf". No or nearly no interrupts are generated anymore
> for incoming packets. Existing links either break down after a while and
> new links will not be established.
>
> The circumstances leading to this "deafness" is still unclear, but some
> particular chips (especially 2-stream 11n SoCs, but also others) can go
> 'deaf' when running AP or mesh (or both) after some time. It's probably
> a hardware issue, and doing a channel scan to trigger a chip
> reset (which one normally can't do on an AP interface) recovers the
> hardware.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] ath9k: Add RX inactivity detection and reset chip when it occurs
commit: b5f871ab4913b2403a7cdcbcde16d39d0b071fb3
Best regards,
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Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
