On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Please be gentle, I'm a fs developer and this is my first foray into drivers, as > I'm tired of building ralinks driver everytime I update my kernel. Whenever I > load the rt2800pci driver my box bogs down, and a few printk's later I > discovered its because I was getting 10's of thousands of TBTT interrupts a > second. I discovered this was because we were setting the beacon timer to 0, > which is apparently what TBTT keys off of. It seems to me that we should only > be enabling TBTT when we are in a beacon transmitting mode, which from what I > can tell is in AD-HOC and other such modes where the mac80211 layer would have > given us a proper beacon_int to set the beacon timer to instead of 0. So this > is my fix, only enable TBTT if our sync mode is for beacon. This makes it so my > box doesn't die everytime I load the rt2800pci driver. Let me know if this is > acceptable, I just learned all these terms about 15 minutes ago via wikipedia, > so I really am not familiar with how this stuff is supposed to work. Thanks, > > Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c | 3 ++- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c > index eb6d129..e90d6fd 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c > @@ -560,7 +560,8 @@ void rt2800_config_intf(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev, struct rt2x00_intf *intf, > rt2800_register_read(rt2x00dev, BCN_TIME_CFG, ®); > rt2x00_set_field32(®, BCN_TIME_CFG_TSF_TICKING, 1); > rt2x00_set_field32(®, BCN_TIME_CFG_TSF_SYNC, conf->sync); > - rt2x00_set_field32(®, BCN_TIME_CFG_TBTT_ENABLE, 1); > + rt2x00_set_field32(®, BCN_TIME_CFG_TBTT_ENABLE, > + (conf->sync == TSF_SYNC_BEACON)); > rt2800_register_write(rt2x00dev, BCN_TIME_CFG, reg); > } > Oh btw this is against the wireless-testing git tree, I forgot to mention that. Thanks, Josef -- 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
