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Re: [PATCH] ath9k_hw: Do full chip reset on 11A channels

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On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:38:16AM -0700, Paul Stewart wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Rajkumar Manoharan
> <rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:01:29AM -0700, Paul Stewart wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Rajkumar Manoharan
> >> <rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > AR9003 seems to have issues sometimes with fast channel change
> >> > in 5GHz and this case is handled specifically for AR9002 by doing
> >> > a full reset. So let's do a full reset for 5GHz channles for all
> >> > chipsets.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure I understand.  Are you asserting that AR9002 does not
> >> need a full reset for channel change in 2GHz?   The code before your
> >> change would fall through for AR_SREV_9280(ah) && !AR_DEVID_7010(ah)
> >> whether in 2HGz or 5GHz, but that case gets removed with your change.
> >> Is that intentional?
> >>
> > Yes. Fast channel change is completely supported on 2GHz band. And also
> > if you look at the log history, the fast channel change was initially
> > disabled in 5GHz alone for AR9280 chips. AR7010 chip is the usb version of
> > AR9280. Instead of adding chip specific checks, the fastcc is disabled for
> > 5GHz.
> 
> I might not be finding the right part of the history.  I do see things
> like 0a475cc6a0ac8e38ac3587cff87026551800b7fe: Vasanthakumar
> Thiagarajan <vasanth@xxxxxxxxxxx> "ath9k: Do a full reset for AR9280;
> AR9280 requires a full reset during channel change and HW reset.
> Currently, a fast channel change is done. This patch fixes this bug."
> This patch disabled fast-channel-change for the 9280 AND 2GHz channels
> (what I assume 5MHZ_SPACED to be filtering).  I still see no point in
> history where 9280 was enabled for fast channel change in 2Ghz.
>
True. Let me check on this. Meanwhile I will send v2 patch to disable fastcc
on 11A for AR9380 alone.

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Rajkumar
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