We can remove the checks for bDriverStopped and bSurpriseRemoved in dump_mgntframe_and_wait_ack. The code path from this function looks like dump_mgntframe_and_wait_ack rtl8188eu_mgnt_xmit rtw_dump_xframe loop over all fragments rtw_write_port is called for each fragment. bSurpriseRemoved and bDriverStopped are checked in rtw_write_port. Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c index bfd6afd7266e..be33489d3dfd 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c @@ -3988,9 +3988,6 @@ s32 dump_mgntframe_and_wait_ack(struct adapter *padapter, struct xmit_frame *pmg u32 timeout_ms = 500;/* 500ms */ struct xmit_priv *pxmitpriv = &padapter->xmitpriv; - if (padapter->bSurpriseRemoved || padapter->bDriverStopped) - return -1; - mutex_lock(&pxmitpriv->ack_tx_mutex); pxmitpriv->ack_tx = true; -- 2.30.2