few questions regarding wcn36xx driver

Eugene Krasnikov k.eugene.e at gmail.com
Wed Feb 5 05:14:57 EST 2014


Hi Chafik,

Your crash is about cashing firmware not SMD timeout.

I might wanna have a look into AMPDU in AP mode and mesh as a starting point.

2014-02-03 Chafik Driouichi <chafik.driouichi at terranet.se>:
> Hello Eugene,
>
>  Thank you for taking the time to write back.
>
>  Great to hear that there is still some work to be part of. Actually, I have
> been using the master branch and I could see that it has the patch for
> increasing the wait time for the SMD channe. But I still saw the same crash.
>
>  The only difference in my setup is that I'm building the compat against
> linux-stable for v3.13-rc8 and not against linux-next. I will test the
> driver thoroughly, and I will make a list of all bugs/issues I see and will
> share them with you and I hope to help fixing some of them.
>
> Best regards,
> Chafik
>
>
>
> On 2014-02-03 12:30, Eugene Krasnikov wrote:
>>
>>   Hi Chafik,
>>
>> A lot of people were using mesh and wcn36xx driver. But there are
>> still things to be done. Any help is really appreciated.
>> I woule recommend to use the latest master branch because it conains
>> the fix for your crash.
>> I would really appreciate if you can test the driver and create a list
>> of bugs to be fixed and then fix them one by one.
>>
>> 2014-01-29 Chafik Driouichi <chafik.driouichi at terranet.se>:
>>>
>>> Hello Eugene,
>>>
>>>   I started working in a small company "TerraNet" in Sweden, Lund. My
>>> first
>>> task is to check whether I can use the wcn36xx open source driver to mesh
>>> with Sony Xperia Z phones. I wonder how mature is this driver and are you
>>> still heavily involved in further developing this driver?
>>>
>>>   If I want to help out, what would you recommend me to start with?
>>>
>>>   Currently, I'm using backports (v3.11-rc3-1), linux-stable (v3.11-rc3),
>>> wcn36xx (sha1: bc949af) from your github, and built cyanogen 10.2 for
>>> YUGA
>>> (Sony Xperia Z). However, the phone crashes/reboots when going into
>>> suspend
>>> mode (attached kernel crash log). Have you seen similar behaviour?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Chafik
>>>
>>
>>
>



-- 
Best regards,
Eugene



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