Re: [PATCH] ath5k: disable ASPM

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 09:59 -0400, Bob Copeland wrote: 
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Patch I made uses GPL code from e1000e, but since ath5k is
> >> dual-licensed so patch can't be accepted. So if I got it right, patch
> >> has to be remade from scratch by someone who really knows about pci
> >> registers etc. I don't, and learning this to fix something that is
> >> already fixed in my point of view is waste of (my) time.
> > Sure, regardless of licensing, this patch has to be redone (and e1000
> > with it)
> 
> At any rate, Jussi, thanks a bundle for tracking it down.  I owe you a
> beer, lots of bugs have been reported on these devices.
> 
> Maxim, this device was always broken in the same way, right?  Just
> curious if anything made it worse recently.

Always was broken, of course even with madwifi.

Recently I think driver stopped doing reset on RXORN, which sometimes
helped. This did made things a bit worse.

Anyway, just disable L0S, and card works perfectly.

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky

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