ath5k: disable 32KHz sleep clock operation by default

While 32 KHz sleep clock might provide some power saving benefits,
it is also a major source of stability issues, on OpenWrt it produced
some reproducible data bus errors on register accesses on several
different MIPS platforms.

All the Atheros drivers that I can find do not enable this feature,
so it makes sense to leave it disabled in ath5k as well.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.h
index 50d7580..8ff1794 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.h
@@ -1067,6 +1067,8 @@ struct ath5k_hw {
        u8                      ah_retry_long;
        u8                      ah_retry_short;
 
+       u32                     ah_use_32khz_clock;
+
        u8                      ah_coverage_class;
        bool                    ah_ack_bitrate_high;
        u8                      ah_bwmode;

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c
index ae1112b..4edca70 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c
@@ -922,6 +922,9 @@ ath5k_debug_init_device(struct ath5k_softc *sc)
 
        debugfs_create_file("queue", S_IWUSR | S_IRUSR, phydir, sc,
                            &fops_queue);
+
+       debugfs_create_bool("32khz_clock", S_IWUSR | S_IRUSR, phydir,
+                           &sc->ah->ah_use_32khz_clock);
 }
 
 /* functions used in other places */

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/reset.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/reset.c
index 0e89fc9..9f9c2ad 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/reset.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/reset.c
@@ -1287,11 +1287,16 @@ int ath5k_hw_reset(struct ath5k_hw *ah, enum nl80211_iftype op_mode,
        ath5k_hw_dma_init(ah);
 
 
-       /* Enable 32KHz clock function for AR5212+ chips
+       /*
+        * Enable 32KHz clock function for AR5212+ chips
         * Set clocks to 32KHz operation and use an
         * external 32KHz crystal when sleeping if one
-        * exists */
-       if (ah->ah_version == AR5K_AR5212 &&
+        * exists.
+        * Disabled by default because it is also disabled in
+        * other drivers and it is known to cause stability
+        * issues on some devices
+        */
+       if (ah->ah_use_32khz_clock && ah->ah_version == AR5K_AR5212 &&
            op_mode != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
                ath5k_hw_set_sleep_clock(ah, true);