(A little slow on follow-up here) On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 02:59:49PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 10:48 -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > > > > Yes, that all sounds nice. But for my sake, can you describe better > > what's actually going on there (e.g., can you point me at which code > > does this)? > > It's much easier with mac80211, it has all the state. Basically the > reconfig is in ieee80211_reconfig() :) Wow, that's not exactly simple code; I expect it could be pretty difficult to get that right today on mwifiex. The current approach actually should be *easier* (for the kernel side) to avoid bugs, as it should be basically the same thing as 'rmmod'. Nonetheless, there are plenty of bugs. Thanks for the pointer though. > > I'm really not familiar with mac80211 (though I was aware of > > the above general behavior). But to my knowledge, mac80211 drivers > > keep a lot more state managed in the kernel, so it's a little easier > > and more natural to get the driver/FW back to "the same state" than > > it is with a full-MAC driver. > > Indeed. Brian
