wl12xx regression on 4.5 (was: Re: linux-4.5-rc1 TI pandboard-es wifi wlcore locks and reset)

From: Sebastian Reichel
Date: Tue Feb 02 2016 - 11:05:58 EST


Hi Ross,

Please don't top-post on kernel mailinglists. Use either inline
style or bottom posting.

On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 04:41:13PM +1100, Ross Green wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:38:38PM +1100, Ross Green wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:47 PM, Ross Green <rgkernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Just tried the new kernel release on faithful pandaboard es with the
> >> > new 4.5-rc1 release.
> >> >
> >> > There is a problem with the wifi modules once the modules are loaded.
> >> > Looks like the wifi firmware gets loaded put no response after that
> >> > causing recovery action.
> >> >
> >> > the kernel 4.4 works quite happily with this board.
> >> >
> >> > Here is a dmesg dump in the attachment.
> >> >
> >> > Anyone have any ideas here?
>
> [...]
>
> If I get time, this evening, I'll see if I can give a bisect a try.

On N950 [wl1271 via SPI, using extra patches to init from DT] I get wifi
working again on 4.5-rc1 with 3719c17e1816 ("wlcore/wl18xx: fw logger
over sdio") reverted.

-- Sebastian

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