AP mode firmware crash on QCA9880-BR4A

[Michal Kazior]

On 8 August 2015 at 23:06, Martin Blumenstingl
<martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michal,

Hi,

Sorry for my late reply.


> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> wrote:
>> It could be that your devices are not transmitting Probe Requests and
>> scan passively 5GHz channels due to their regulatory restrictions. Can
>> you try getting traces to confirm this, please?
> I have just tried it again and today I *can* see the AP on one of my
> Android devices (I haven't tried the second one, but that should also
> see it).
>
> During my testing I found out that ath10k_wmi_beacon_send_ref_nowait()
> is the command that makes it crash.
> I re-enabled everything in ath10k_wmi_event_host_swba() and it started
> crashing again.
> A few tests later I found that removing the following line "fixes" the
> crashes (but it will obviously break other things!):
>     arvif->beacon_state = ATH10K_BEACON_SCHEDULED;
>
> Thus I came to the conclusion that I should try disabling
> "pdev_send_bcn_cmdid" to the device.

Hardly a solution, obviously.


>
> I made two traces (with firmware 10.2.4.70-2), you can find them both
> in this tarball: [0]
> trace.192.168.1.3:41579.dat was recorded without any ath10k patches
> trace.192.168.1.3:43752.dat was recorded with
> ath10k_wmi_beacon_send_ref_nowait that has ath10k_wmi_cmd_send_nowait
> removed (see [1])

I'm out of ideas for now. Apparently the device can Tx as it can send
out Probe Responses but for some reason it doesn't like beaconing..


Michał