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Re: Question: ath6kl (driver/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl) with debug_mask value

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Hi Kalle

On 8 September 2011 17:27, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Sangwook,
>
> On 09/07/2011 04:32 PM, Sangwook Lee wrote:
>> I am running ath6kl-cleanup git.
>
> BTW, ath6kl-cleanup.git is not updated anymore. Instead there's now
> ath6kl.git which follows wireless-testing. You can find it from
> git.kernel.org (when it's up again) or from github.
>
Thanks for this info, I will use new git.

>> If I add debug_mask values with ath6kl.ko as like followings, I get
>> the success full results,
>> but without this, "iwlist wlan0 scan" fails.
>>
>> ath6kl: hw 2.0 fw 3.1.1.149
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure if I have hw 2.0. I try to find one from my "stash" :)
>
>> 1) SCAN success with debug values: ( 0xc44,c40,40)
>> $ insmod ath.ko
>> $ insmod ath6kl.ko debug_mask=0x40
>> $ ifconfig wlan0 up
>> $ iwlist wlan0 scan
>>
>> 2) SCAN failure
>> $ insmod ath.ko
>> $ insmod ath6kl.ko
>> $ ifconfig wlan0 up
>> $ iwlist wlan0 scan
>> With this case, there is no coming event "WMI_SCAN_COMPLETE_EVENTID".
>> After receiving  "ath6kl: WMI_EXTENSION_EVENTID"
>> iwlist shows error message:
>>       wlan0     Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> 0x40 is ATH6KL_DBG_HTC_RECV. I guess the debug prints slow down the
> execution and papers over the bug. At least I can't think of any other
> explonation right now.
>
> Before I'm able to find a hw 2.0 device, can you try to debug this more?
> When scanning fails can check if ath6kldev_intr_bh_handler() is called
> or not? When scanning fails it usually happens because irqs are failing.
>
OK, let me debug this point later.

> Can you share any details about your setup? From linaro.org I assume you
> are using an arm board of some sort ;)#
>
Yes, I am using
ARM Cortex A9 (Samsung EXYNOS4),
SDIO Interface
AR6003 Firmware
In details,
 https://wiki.linaro.org/Resources/HowTo/SamsungWlanInOrigen

> Kalle
>

Sangwook
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