kern/163318: [ath] ath(4) stops working

[Joel Dahl]

The following reply was made to PR kern/163318; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joel Dahl <joel at freebsd.org>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/163318: [ath] ath(4) stops working
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:56:16 +0100

 On 17-01-2012 10:53, Adrian Chadd wrote:
 > On 17 January 2012 10:50, Joel Dahl <joel at freebsd.org> wrote:
 > >> Then verify that it's working as advertised:
 > >>
 > >> * sysctl dev.ath.0.txagg=1 and check dmesg - sc_in_scan should be 0;
 > >> * do a manual scan (ifconfig wlan0 scan) and then redo the above
 > >> sysctl - it should be 1.
 > >
 > > Hm. I did the above changes and rebuilt my kernel. If I do sysctl
 > > dev.ath0.txagg=1, sc_in_scan is 0 just as expected. If I do a manual scan
 > > right after, it is still set to 0.
 > 
 > right. Can you check the sc_in_scan value _during_ an ifconfig wlan0
 > scan ? (ie, whilst it's running.)
 > 
 > You'll have to be ninja-fast.
 > 
 > I just want to verify that it's actually working..
 
 Yes, it's set to 1 for a very short period during the scan. So it seems to
 work like it should.
 
 > > ...or was I supposed to _only_ do ifconfig wlan0 scan once the interface has
 > > died?
 > 
 > The above is just to verify that it's working. Once that's done, check
 > sc_in_scan once the interface has hung.
 > 
 > I'm testing the hypothesis that the scan logic is "hung" somehow and
 > that is why the interface never comes out of STA power save mode.
 
 I'll check this next.
 
 -- 
 Joel