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Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset

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Hi Brian,

> Wow, that's not exactly simple code; I expect it could be pretty
> difficult to get that right today on mwifiex. 

Yeah, I have no doubt. You'd probably have to track a lot of state that
you just pass down to the firmware too, and possibly can't even track
some state that the firmware derives itself (like for example PNs for
keys)

> 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.

:-)

johannes



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