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Re: [PATCH 05/12] iwlwifi: pcie: try to grab NIC access early

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On Wed, 2021-03-31 at 12:14 +0300, Luca Coelho wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Sometimes some NICs may fail to initialize, but if we have
> such a scenario we may only see an alive timeout (i.e. the
> firmware doesn't send us the alive message), and that will
> only cause us to fail the interface up.
> 
> Try to once grab NIC access during device probe to ensure
> we can properly talk to the hardware at all, and to do all
> the potential workarounds in that function.
> 
> Since we now finish NIC init here, we can remove it from
> the later potential read of the RF ID.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

This patch is included in Emmanuel's iwlmei series, so I'll drop it
from this series.

--
Cheers,
Luca.




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