9984 with 10.4.3.5.3-0057 crashes

[Kalle Valo]

Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall at dd-wrt.com> writes:

> Am 24.04.2018 um 07:27 schrieb Kalle Valo:
>> Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall at dd-wrt.com> writes:
>>
>>> just for your notice. 10.4.3.5.3-0057 on 9984 which was just released
>>> crashes in vht160 operation mode immediatly after first station
>>> associates
>>> last known working stable fw so far is 10.4-3.4-00104. the whole
>>> 10.4.3.5.3 series seem to be seriously broken or the api has been
>>> changed in a way
>>> which is unsupported by ath10k (which i think is the cause of the
>>> problem)
>>> it would be good to know what has been changed.
>>
>> At least I was not informed any changes in the firmware interface. What
>> version of ath10k are you using? Do you have any custom patches on
>> ath10k?
>
> i'm using latest git version for testing here but there is one
> relevant patch required for more recent firmwares like 3.4 series (see
> below) i posted already a long time ago, that vht160 will not work
> anymore without that patch in newer firmwares since qca changed the api
> for channel mapping in vht160.

I don't remember what happened to that patch, but please resubmit it
with a proper commit log and S-o-b line.

I was told that the firmware crash is an assert triggered by host not
populating the parameter 'peer_bw_rxnss_override' in
WMI_PEER_ASSOC_CMDID which is needed for 160/80+80 operation.

-- 
Kalle Valo