TX hang and EAPOL stuff fixed in HEAD; please test!

[Adrian Chadd]

Yeah. I still haven't root ucaused that. Grr.



Adrian



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On May 8, 2013 6:46 PM, Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com> wrote: 

I just updated and so far it's working.  I had noticed dropped 

connections before by looking at my messages file.  It might take my a 

while to figure out if that's an antenna issue or an ath issue.  One 

issue is the "ath0: ath_edma_recv_proc_queue: handled npkts 0" spam 

issue.  Is that safe to comment out in the source and assume only you 

can really diagnose?



On 5/7/2013 10:09 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Hi!

>

> Would those using atheros NICs on -HEAD please update and give it a

> good thrashing?

>

> I've fixed a couple of things:

>

> * The driver was not able to transmit EAPOL frames if the send queue

> ran out of space. This is why my UDP TX tests were failing - the group

> rekey would kick in, fail to transmit the EAPOL "Yes I've done that"

> ack frame back to the AP and the AP would kick the station off.

> * I've modified the transmit path to always keep a link pointer around

> rather than NULL'ing it out and reinitialising TX DMA every time. This

> is the "blessed" way to handle DMA. However, I'm still trying to

> verify that I've actually done this correctly in all ways so I'd

> really like this tested.

>

> I'd like to start merging in my power save and reassociation fixes

> from my test branch but to do that I'd really like to have this code

> fully tested.

>

> Thanks!

>

>

>

>

> Adrian

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