This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "ath9k_hw: reduce ANI firstep range for older chips"
to the 3.16-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
revert-ath9k_hw-reduce-ani-firstep-range-for-older-chips.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 171cdab8c78bb169d9693d587e1d02d2dd5a0274 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 20:45:40 +0200
Subject: Revert "ath9k_hw: reduce ANI firstep range for older chips"
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 171cdab8c78bb169d9693d587e1d02d2dd5a0274 upstream.
This reverts commit 09efc56345be4146ab9fc87a55c837ed5d6ea1ab
I've received reports that this change is decreasing throughput in some
rare conditions on an AR9280 based device
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar5008_phy.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar5008_phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar5008_phy.c
@@ -1004,9 +1004,11 @@ static bool ar5008_hw_ani_control_new(st
case ATH9K_ANI_FIRSTEP_LEVEL:{
u32 level = param;
- value = level;
+ value = level * 2;
REG_RMW_FIELD(ah, AR_PHY_FIND_SIG,
AR_PHY_FIND_SIG_FIRSTEP, value);
+ REG_RMW_FIELD(ah, AR_PHY_FIND_SIG_LOW,
+ AR_PHY_FIND_SIG_FIRSTEP_LOW, value);
if (level != aniState->firstepLevel) {
ath_dbg(common, ANI,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/revert-ath9k_hw-reduce-ani-firstep-range-for-older-chips.patch
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