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| From | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset |
| Date | 2017-06-22 15:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tVa1X-5aF-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 10:48 -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > > Yes, that all sounds nice. But for my sake, can you describe better > what's actually going on there (e.g., can you point me at which code > does this)? It's much easier with mac80211, it has all the state. Basically the reconfig is in ieee80211_reconfig() :) > I'm really not familiar with mac80211 (though I was aware of > the above general behavior). But to my knowledge, mac80211 drivers > keep a lot more state managed in the kernel, so it's a little easier > and more natural to get the driver/FW back to "the same state" than > it is with a full-MAC driver. Indeed. johannes
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Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> - 2017-06-21 19:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2017-06-22 15:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> - 2017-06-27 22:00 +0200
Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2017-06-28 09:30 +0200
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