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Re: [PATCH 2/5] mac80211: fix propagation of failed hardware reconfigurations

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On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 20:03 -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

>  	/* restart hardware */
>  	if (local->open_count) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Upon resume hardware can sometimes be goofy due to
> +		 * various platform / driver / bus issues, so restarting
> +		 * the device may at times not work immediately. Propagate
> +		 * the error.
> +		 */
>  		res = drv_start(local);
> +		if (res) {
> +			WARN(local->suspended, "Harware became unavailable "
> +			     "upon resume likely due to a bug on mac80211, "
> +			     "your driver or a bus issue\n");
> +			return res;
> +		}

I object to the wording -- how would this be a mac80211 bug? :)

johannes

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