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Re: [PATCH 2/5] brcmfmac: remove "arp_hostip_clear" from "brcmf_netdev_stop"

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On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 7:48 PM Chi-Hsien Lin <Chi-Hsien.Lin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Wright Feng <wright.feng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The firmware does not respond ARP request and causes ping failure with
> following steps:
>
> 1. Bring up interface
>    ifconfig wlan0 up or start wpa_supplicant
> 2. Set the IP address
>    ifconfig wlan0 192.168.100.10
> 3. Bring down interface or
>    ifconfig wlan0 down or kill wpa_supplicant
> 4. Bring up interface again and set the same IP address
> 5. Connect to AP(192.168.100.1) and ping to AP will be failed.
>
> FMAC clears arp_hostip when bringing down the interface, but not set it
> back if setting the same IP address. We are able to see the IP address
> in interface info(inconfig wlan0) but the ping still cannot work because
> the firmware ARP offload does not respond the ARP request.
> Because of that, we remove "arp_hostip_clear" from function
> "brcmf_netdev_stop"

Shouldn't brcmf_inetaddr_changed get called when the interface up again?

Thanks,
- Franky

>
> Signed-off-by: Wright Feng <wright.feng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Chi-Hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
> index b1f702faff4f..e1666cf3801c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
> @@ -533,8 +533,6 @@ static int brcmf_netdev_stop(struct net_device *ndev)
>
>         brcmf_cfg80211_down(ndev);
>
> -       brcmf_fil_iovar_data_set(ifp, "arp_hostip_clear", NULL, 0);
> -
>         brcmf_net_setcarrier(ifp, false);
>
>         return 0;
> --
> 2.1.0
>



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