> > > Actually alike athk also iwlwifi driver calls tx_status from a tasklet > > > therfore the irqsafe can be removed. I've tested that it worked so far > > > > Ok, fine too. Just the mixing is actually bad because of locking. > > There'll be a patch for it. Great, thanks. I'll be reposting my sta info rework today and that will then add documentation about that too. > > > In general I'm missing some asynchronous mechanism that driver can > > > notify mac80211 about it's state. > > > Except BA states there is for example netif_carrier_off/on > > > functionality in the driver level. It would be very useful for early > > > notification of disconnection. A disconnection can happen due to > > > device resume or internal recoverable error. In this cases I would > > > expect mac to try associate again upon such trigger. > > > > I guess that's just missing. You can stop the queues but you can't tell > > mac80211 that you reset the hw. > > If there is no objection we will introduce some notification > mechanism...suggestions are welcome as well. I have no objection, though I'm unsure what precisely you want. What, for example, if you're running hostapd and your hardware resets? Can you keep station tables etc.? johannes
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