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

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On 7 March 2017 at 14:32, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Did you notice this on your email:
>
> To:     unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)

I guess I should have put linux-wireless in To. Normally I put you,
but since it's RFC, I left it empty and it went like this.

Anyway I believe it still reached linux-wireless. So any comments on this? :)

-- 
Rafał




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