[rt2x00-users] Question about starting up an AP

[Ivo Van Doorn]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Helmut Schaa
<helmut.schaa at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 26 Oktober 2010 schrieb Johannes Berg:
>> On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:35 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:
>>
>> > > I'll let Ivo decide on this. At least if we really want to wait more then one
>> > > second for DMA to be ready we should increase the msleep(1) to msleep(10) and
>> > > keep the maximum number of retries at 100.
>>
>> > Ivo, do we want to add the excessive waiting (up to one second) for DMA on
>> > rt2800 as it fixes Joshuas device? At the moment we're waiting 100ms.
>>
>> I don't usually chime in on other drivers but is there any reason not
>> to? Properly functioning devices obviously reply within 100ms, so they
>> wouldn't change behaviour, hopefully broken ones that _never_ work are
>> rare, and the remaining ones like Joshua's would be fixed ...
>
> True, nevertheless I wanted to get Ivos ack before going ahead.

yeah, I don't mind waiting for a full second, on my machine a normal
ifconfig up takes already ages for some odd reason, so another second wouldn't
matter if that means that more devices can function. :)

Ivo