2011/7/4 Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org>:
> 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 <n...@openwrt.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/reset.c |    9 ---------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/reset.c 
> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/reset.c
> index 55276ce..192c0cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/reset.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/reset.c
> @@ -1285,15 +1285,6 @@ 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
> -        * Set clocks to 32KHz operation and use an
> -        * external 32KHz crystal when sleeping if one
> -        * exists */
> -       if (ah->ah_version == AR5K_AR5212 &&
> -           op_mode != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
> -               ath5k_hw_set_sleep_clock(ah, true);
> -
>        /*
>         * Disable beacons and reset the TSF
>         */
> --
> 1.7.3.2
>

a) LegacyHAL and Sam's HAL both enable it
b) Not many cards have a 32KHz crystal anyway (disabled on EEPROM)
c) Please don't just remove code, if you want to disable it you can
always comment it out
d) Why not make it a module parameter instead ?



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