On Tue, 2021-11-09 at 19:30 +0200, Luca Coelho wrote: > From: Mordechay Goodstein <mordechay.goodstein@xxxxxxxxx> > > In some very rare cases the init flow may fail. In many cases, this is > recoverable, so we can retry. Implement a loop to retry two more times > after the first attempt failed. > > This can happen in two different situations, namely during probe and > during mac80211 start. For the first case, a simple loop is enough. > For the second case, we need to add a flag to prevent mac80211 from > trying to restart it as well, leaving full control with the driver. > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Mordechay Goodstein <mordechay.goodstein@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> > --- Hi Kalle, Can you take this to v5.16? It fixes a rare but critical issue that causes the NIC to become unusable until the next reboot... I'll assign it to you in patchwork. Thanks! -- Cheers, Luca.
