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[PATCH] brcmfmac: replace WARNING on timeout with a simple error message

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From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Even with timeout increased to 950 ms we get WARNINGs from time to time.
It mostly happens on A-MPDU stalls (e.g. when station goes out of
range). It may take up to 5-10 secods for the firmware to recover and
for that time it doesn't process packets.

It's still useful to have a message on time out as it may indicate some
firmware problem and incorrect key update. Raising a WARNING however
wasn't really that necessary, it doesn't point to any driver bug anymore
and backtrace wasn't much useful.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
index 6d046ba..9e6f60a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
@@ -1161,7 +1161,8 @@ int brcmf_netdev_wait_pend8021x(struct brcmf_if *ifp)
 				 !brcmf_get_pend_8021x_cnt(ifp),
 				 MAX_WAIT_FOR_8021X_TX);
 
-	WARN_ON(!err);
+	if (!err)
+		brcmf_err("Timed out waiting for no pending 802.1x packets\n");
 
 	return !err;
 }
-- 
2.9.3




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