[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Give WiFi modules more time to settle

Felix Fietkau nbd at openwrt.org
Tue May 12 05:07:56 EDT 2015


On 2015-05-12 10:35, Hante Meuleman wrote:
> The boot script gives 1 second for wifi modules to settle. For newer
> routers
> 
> like R8000 which has three wifi devices which all need to be firmware
> 
> downloaded, nvram downloaded and initialized this delay is getting very
> 
> tight. On some bootups it was seen that not all wifi modules were
> 
> initialized by the time the "wifi detect" command was executed.
> 
>  
> 
> This patch increases the timeout from 1 to 2, leaving plenty of time for
> the
> 
> wifi modules to initialize:
NACK from me. I think we should instead add an OpenWrt specifc patch to
brcmfmac, similar to the one we have for ath10k, which makes device
probing (and firmware loading) synchronous.
The ath10k patch is 921-ath10k_init_devices_synchronously.patch

- Felix
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