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[PATCH 3.4] ath9k: wake up the hardware from full sleep when idle is turned off

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Felix Fietkau wrote:
> The hardware needs a reset to recover from full sleep. Issue this reset
> directly in the ath9k_config call that turns off idle, otherwise tx
> remains dead until the first channel change after the idle state change
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c |    9 ++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
> index ba5af8e..fcb13e3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
> @@ -1584,6 +1584,7 @@ static int ath9k_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 changed)
>  	struct ath_hw *ah = sc->sc_ah;
>  	struct ath_common *common = ath9k_hw_common(ah);
>  	struct ieee80211_conf *conf = &hw->conf;
> +	bool reset_channel = false;
>  
>  	ath9k_ps_wakeup(sc);
>  	mutex_lock(&sc->mutex);
> @@ -1592,6 +1593,12 @@ static int ath9k_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 changed)
>  		sc->ps_idle = !!(conf->flags & IEEE80211_CONF_IDLE);
>  		if (sc->ps_idle)
>  			ath_cancel_work(sc);
> +		else
> +			/*
> +			 * The chip needs a reset to properly wake up from
> +			 * full sleep
> +			 */
> +			reset_channel = ah->chip_fullsleep;

This doesn't seem to work...

Since IDLE is broken currently, the HW never enters FULL_SLEEP mode and
reset_channel will always be zero, and a chip reset will be done only via
IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_CHANNEL.

Sujith
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