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Re: ath9k: ap tsf seems random and only uses lower 24 bits or so

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On 2010-06-29 12:31 AM, Björn Smedman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm getting weird values from the debugfs file ieee80211/phy0/tsf: the
> value goes up and down rather randomly and only the lower 24 bits or
> so seem to ever be used (see below for details).
> 
> The only thing running on phy0 is a single ap interface (and the
> monitor companion that hostapd sets up). I was expecting tsf to
> increase monotonically until all 64 bits had been used.
> 
> For a moment I thought it might be the kernel snprintf (on mips)
> playing a trick on me so I tried the following patch. But the result
> is the same.
IMHO the most likely problem source is stuck beacons. Please compile the
driver with the debug option enabled and load it with
insmod ath9k debug=0x00000100

- Felix
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