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Re: [PATCH RFC] brcmfmac: shutdown interfaces on PSM's watchdog fire

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Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When PSM's watchdog fires hardware / firmware is not operational. It
> seems there isn't a way to restart firmware & reapply all settings so
> instead shut all interfaces down. This is at least some signal for the
> user things went wrong and allows reacting to it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This patch is RFC as I'm wondering if there is any other way to handle
> such errors. I couldn't find anything except for that
> cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces.
>
> Unfortunately hostapd doesn't seem to react to this except for sth like:
> Fri Feb 24 13:41:07 2017 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan0: INTERFACE-DISABLED
>
> Shall we introduce some nl80211 even for such cases maybe?
>
> Or maybe I'm totally wrong and there is some simple way for a driver to
> request reconfiguration of all interfaces?

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