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Re: carl9170 firmware: WoWLAN and adding fields to carl9170_tx_superdesc

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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 03:18:03PM +0200, thus spake Christian Lamparter:
> On Thursday, July 14, 2011 02:28:03 PM Ignacy Gawedzki wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm still working on an extension of the carl9170 firmware to enable TX
> > service time measurements.  This implies the addition of a u32 field to
> > carl9170_tx_superdesc to record the TSF value at the time the frame is
> > received by the firmware.
> > 
> > The problem with WoWLAN, more specifically with changes introduced by
> > af915846d44d23adc02c7ded807282d607b46faa, is that adding that field makes
> > carl9170_sram_reserved::cmd larger than CARL9170_MAX_CMD_LEN.
> > 
> > I still don't see an easy way out other than disabling WoWLAN altogether.
> > If anyone has any suggestion, I'd be happy to read it.
> Well, I think there's enough space in the rsp [fw->driver] buffer.

Okay, so I moved null to the rsp union and adapted wlan.c accordingly.  It
compiles just fine indeed.

> After all in WoWLAN mode, this buffer will be unused as well?

It sounds like it makes sense.  For the moment, I can only say that it works
for normal use.  I would still have to check WoWLAN, though.

Thanks for your help.

Ignacy

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