QCA6174 firmware crash in monitor mode

[gloudon.jamie at gmail.com]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 03:38:37PM +0000, Valo, Kalle wrote:
> gloudon.jamie at gmail.com writes:
> 
> > QCA6147 monitor mode stopped working ever since after kernel v4.3.
> > Here is the firmware crash log:
> >
> > Feb 13 01:39:36 darkstar kernel: [   34.010363] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: qca6174 hw2.1 target 0x05010000 chip_id 0x003405ff sub 168c:3344
> > Feb 13 01:39:36 darkstar kernel: [   34.010373] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: kconfig debug 1 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
> > Feb 13 01:39:36 darkstar kernel: [   34.012252] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware ver SW_RM.1.1.1-00157-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 5 features ignore-otp,no-4addr-pad crc32 10bf8e08
> > Feb 13 01:39:36 darkstar kernel: [   34.012291] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 cdb586cf
> > Feb 13 01:39:36 darkstar kernel: [   34.012301] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt-ver 3.1 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
> > Feb 13 01:39:36 darkstar kernel: [   34.067918] ieee80211 phy0: Hardware restart was requested
> >
> > Feb 13 01:39:36 darkstar kernel: [   34.010318] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware crashed! (uuid cb6fc88d-918d-4c7a-af69-15a713136bf7)
> > Feb 13 01:39:36 darkstar kernel: [   34.014330] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware register dump:
> > Feb 13 01:39:36 darkstar kernel: [   34.014340] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: [00]: 0x05010000 0x00000000 0x0099987C 0x00000000
> > Feb 13 01:39:36 darkstar kernel: [   34.014349] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: [04]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> 
> Does this patch fix it?
> 
> ath10k: fix firmware assert in monitor mode
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8481281/
> 
> -- 
> Kalle Valo

Yes, the patch works. Thanks! Forgot to CC ath10k mailing list.

Regards,
Jamie Gloudon