On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 08:28 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > Well it seems to me that if the driver determines that the hardware > is > > unreachable or not responding, it would unregister it from mac80211, > > which would clean up all user-visible state, obviously. > > The drivers would not know this until it fails on the first call > from mac80211 which would be start(). Which is why this patch may be a good way to solve that particular problem. > > The patch above seems ok to me, but basically papers over the > problem. > > If the start there fails, the driver will have to unregister the hw > > since any subsequent start will fail as well. > > How about just having mac80211 do that for drivers where the start() > fails and we are resuming? I can give that a shot. No way, the driver will invariably assume things are still going and might later unregister etc. Too much magic. johannes
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