Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] ath10k: reduce invalid ht params rate message noise

From: Wen Gong <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:36:23 +0800

On 2021-02-10 08:42, Shuah Khan wrote:
> ath10k_mac_get_rate_flags_ht() floods dmesg with the following 
> messages,
> when it fails to find a match for mcs=7 and rate=1440.
> 
> supported_ht_mcs_rate_nss2:
> {7,  {1300, 2700, 1444, 3000} }
> 
> ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: invalid ht params rate 1440 100kbps nss 2 mcs 
> 7
> 
> dev_warn_ratelimited() isn't helping the noise. Use dev_warn_once()
> instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
> index 3545ce7dce0a..276321f0cfdd 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
> @@ -8970,8 +8970,9 @@ static void ath10k_mac_get_rate_flags_ht(struct
> ath10k *ar, u32 rate, u8 nss, u8
>  		*bw |= RATE_INFO_BW_40;
>  		*flags |= RATE_INFO_FLAGS_SHORT_GI;
>  	} else {
> -		ath10k_warn(ar, "invalid ht params rate %d 100kbps nss %d mcs %d",
> -			    rate, nss, mcs);
> +		dev_warn_once(ar->dev,
> +			      "invalid ht params rate %d 100kbps nss %d mcs %d",
> +			      rate, nss, mcs);
>  	}
>  }
The {7,  {1300, 2700, 1444, 3000} } is a correct value.
The 1440 is report from firmware, its a wrong value, it has fixed in 
firmware.
If change it to dev_warn_once, then it will have no chance to find the 
other wrong values which report by firmware, and it indicate
a wrong value to mac80211/cfg80211 and lead "iw wlan0 station dump" get 
a wrong bitrate.