Re: [PATCH] ath9k: Check for errors when reading SREV register

From: Tim Schumacher
Date: Wed Mar 20 2019 - 01:36:18 EST


On 20.03.19 00:38, Tom Psyborg wrote:
> On 19/03/2019, Tim Schumacher <timschumi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The case in where the revision succeeded to read, but it simply
>> isn't supported by the driver, is untouched and it still prints
>> the original message.
>>
>
> In that case this change is fine.
>
>> I don't know why it fails to read the SREV register in my specific
>> case (I tracked it down to a WMI command timeout, which seems to
>> only happen on a Raspberry Pi 3), but having the SREV error message
>> (which points to the actual issue) instead of the false-positive
>> "Rev not supported" message would have saved me quite some time that
>> I spent with debugging the issue, searching for the source of the
>> wrong value.
>>
>
> Did you try some other device than RPI3 ? I've noticed that on router
> and laptop while doing some htc fw builds.
>

I don't have that many other devices to test, but everything worked
fine on both of my PCs and it was fine on the RPi3 that was running
a raspbian-based kernel instead of mainline.