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Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset

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
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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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