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Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: Fix power save usage count imbalance on deinit

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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Rajkumar Manoharan
<rmanoharan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:54:56AM +0530, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Rajkumar Manoharan
>> <rmanoharan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Upon unloading the driver, the ps_usecount is incremented
>> > before configuring gpio registers in deinit_device.
>> > But it is failed to restore the ps_usecount after that.
>> > The problem is that the chip is moved to FULL SLEEP
>> > by radio_disable when mac80211 is reporting as idle
>> > though ps_usecount is not zero.
>> >
>> > This patch retores ps_usecount properly and ensures that
>> > the chip is always moved to full sleep only if ps usage
>> > counte is zero which helps in debugging. And also fixes
>> > the following warning.
>> >
>> > ath: DMA failed to stop in 10 ms AR_CR=0xdeadbeef AR_DIAG_SW=0xdeadbeef
>> > ath: Could not stop RX, we could be confusing the DMA engine when we
>> > start RX up
>> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> > WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:536
>> > ath_stoprecv+0xf4/0x100 [ath9k]()
>> >
>>
>> Are you sure this hunk does not regress the suspend/resume case when
>> using the new dbus API?
>>
> I verfied the suspend/resume case with AR9280 card. But I don't
> understand how the new dbus API is related with this patch?

Paul, if you get a chance to give this a spin before it gets merged
it'd be appreciated.

  Luis
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