[PATCH] talkative reset

Denis Vlasenko vda
Thu May 15 22:59:53 PDT 2003


On 16 May 2003 00:49, Lukic wrote:
> well, i did some more printk :-) in hostap_pci.c, so sreset seems
> like this (don't blame me, i don't know how to use diff or so :-)):
>
> ----------------cut starts here-----------------
> static void prism2_pci_cor_sreset(local_info_t *local)
> {
>         struct net_device *dev = local->dev;
>
>         /* linux-wlan-ng uses extremely long hold and settle times
> for * COR sreset. A comment in the driver code mentions that the long
> * delays appear to be necessary. However, at least IBM 22P6901 *
> seems to work fine with shorter delays.
>          *
>          * Longer delays can be configured by uncommenting following
> line: */
> #define PRISM2_PCI_USE_LONG_DELAYS
>
> #ifdef PRISM2_PCI_USE_LONG_DELAYS
>         int timeout;
>         printk(KERN_WARNING "here we are.. going to send 0x0080 \n");
>                //  this is the last message i get..

give it a couple of yield() calls after printk
and be sure to have syslog written to file with
O_SYNC and/or redirected on a tty.

>         HFA384X_OUTW(0x0080, HFA384X_PCICOR_OFF);
>                    // probably point of hang

put a printk,yield here too

>         timeout = jiffies + HZ / 4;
>         while (time_before(jiffies, timeout))
>                 // we can't run in loop, cause, with short
>                 udelay(5);
>             // with short delays system hangs too.. :-((

replace all this with single nice mdelay(250), then
printk again

>         HFA384X_OUTW(0x0, HFA384X_PCICOR_OFF);

printk

>         timeout = jiffies + HZ / 2;
>         while (time_before(jiffies, timeout))
>                 udelay(5);

replace by mdelay(500)

>         printk(KERN_WARNING "sent 0x0 waiting..\n");

add yield

>         /* Wait for f/w to complete initialization (CMD:BUSY == 0) */

>         timeout = jiffies + 2 * HZ;
>         while ((HFA384X_INW(HFA384X_CMD_OFF) & HFA384X_CMD_BUSY) &&
>                time_before(jiffies, timeout))
>                 udelay(10);
>         printk(KERN_WARNING "waited... end of reset soon..\n");

add yield

>
> #else /* PRISM2_PCI_USE_LONG_DELAYS */
>
>         printk(KERN_WARNING "here we are.. going to send 0x0080 \n");
add yield
>         HFA384X_OUTW(0x0080, HFA384X_PCICOR_OFF);
>         printk(KERN_WARNING "sent 0x0080 sending 0x0\n");
add yield
>         mdelay(1);
>         HFA384X_OUTW(0x0, HFA384X_PCICOR_OFF);
>         mdelay(1);
>         printk(KERN_WARNING "sent 0x0 ...\n");
add yield
>
> #endif /* PRISM2_PCI_USE_LONG_DELAYS */
>
>
>         if (HFA384X_INW(HFA384X_CMD_OFF) & HFA384X_CMD_BUSY) {
>                 printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: COR sreset timeout\n",
> dev->name); }
>         printk(KERN_WARNING "end of reset...\n");
add yield
--
vda




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