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Re: [PATCH 1/2] rt61pci: fix module reloading

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On Sunday 02 August 2009, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Unloading rt61pci can leave the device in such state that reloading
> rt61pci would fail to reinitialize it.  Bogus data would be read from
> the EEPROM and the RF version won't be recognized.
> 
> It appears that unloading rt61pci with power saving enabled would have
> such effect.  To initialize the device properly, SOFT_RESET_CSR should
> be set to the same value as rt61pci_config_ps() uses to wake up the
> device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx>

I'm not really happy with the patch, but if it works, it works.
I got no better alternative to fix this correctly so we might as well merge
this into wireless-testing now. :)

Thanks.

Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
> index fb95b8c..e20dd74 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
> @@ -2601,6 +2601,11 @@ static int rt61pci_probe_hw(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev)
>  	int retval;
>  
>  	/*
> +	 * Disable power saving.
> +	 */
> +	rt2x00pci_register_write(rt2x00dev, SOFT_RESET_CSR, 0x00000007);
> +
> +	/*
>  	 * Allocate eeprom data.
>  	 */
>  	retval = rt61pci_validate_eeprom(rt2x00dev);
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