mac80211 does not propagate failed hardware reconfiguration requests. For suspend and resume this is important due to all the possible issues that can come out of the suspend <-> resume cycle. Not propagating the error means cfg80211 will assume the resume for the device went through fine and mac80211 will continue on trying to poke at the hardware, enable timers, queue work, and so on for a device which is completley unfunctional. The least we can do is to propagate device start issues and warn when this occurs upon resume. A side effect of this patch is we also now propagate the start errors upon harware reconfigurations (non-suspend), but this should also be desirable anyway, there is not point in continuing to reconfigure a device if mac80211 was unable to start the device. For further details refer to the thread: http://marc.info/?t=126151038700001&r=1&w=2 Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- This should make more sense for the warning. net/mac80211/util.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c index b019725..227b428 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/util.c +++ b/net/mac80211/util.c @@ -1047,7 +1047,19 @@ int ieee80211_reconfig(struct ieee80211_local *local) /* 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. This is could be a software issue" + "prior to suspend or a harware issue\n"); + return res; + } ieee80211_led_radio(local, true); } -- 1.6.3.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
