From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi>
Cc: luca@coelho.fi, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: mvm: retry init flow if failed
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 18:38:28 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <163760630539.7371.2987004138623048649.kvalo@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iwlwifi.20211110150132.57514296ecab.I52a0411774b700bdc7dedb124d8b59bf99456eb2@changeid>
Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi> wrote:
> From: Mordechay Goodstein <mordechay.goodstein@intel.com>
>
> 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@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mordechay Goodstein <mordechay.goodstein@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks.
5283dd677e52 iwlwifi: mvm: retry init flow if failed
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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/iwlwifi.20211110150132.57514296ecab.I52a0411774b700bdc7dedb124d8b59bf99456eb2@changeid/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-22 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-09 17:30 [PATCH] iwlwifi: mvm: retry init flow if failed Luca Coelho
2021-11-09 17:33 ` Luca Coelho
2021-11-10 10:51 ` kernel test robot
2021-11-10 13:01 ` [PATCH v2] " Luca Coelho
2021-11-10 13:05 ` Luca Coelho
2021-11-22 18:38 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2021-11-10 14:15 ` [PATCH] " kernel test robot
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